Definition of Entreaties. Meaning of Entreaties. Synonyms of Entreaties

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Definition of Entreaties

Entreaties
Entreaty En*treat"y, n.; pl. Entreaties. 1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. --Spenser. Syn: Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; importunity.

Meaning of Entreaties from wikipedia

- Entreaty was a black New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred mare, who was unplaced in her only race start. She produced twelve horses, one of which was the champion...
- one side or the other in a trial. This may be by promise, persuasions, entreaties, money, entertainments and the like. In English law, embracery was an...
- antislavery Democratic Party members, Lincoln resisted early Republican entreaties, fearing that the new party would become a platform for extreme abolitionists...
- Swaddled baby votives are figures of babies offered as an entreaty to a god or goddess, for healthy pregnancy and childbirth. They have been recovered...
- Georgia election results and appoint a pro-Trump slate of electors, an entreaty rebuffed by Kemp. On December 20, Giuliani filed a petition with the U...
- Alexius I Comnenus provided transport across the Bosporus. Despite Peter's entreaties to restrain themselves, the Crusaders engaged the Turks at once and were...
- river which flows into the sea at Margate is called "Nkhongweni" (place of entreaty) as the original inhabitants of the area were reputed to be so mean resulting...
- Company. This plan, which was well on its way to fruition despite the entreaties of Tswana leaders who toured England in protest, was eventually foiled...
- stone, or remain in the village where they had lived. With the proper entreaties, these ghosts can be commanded to kill or maim living people at a distance...
- more extreme measures of the Parlement de Paris, and also of the public entreaties for moderation of Philip Melanchthon. The placards carried the title "Genuine...