Meaning of ENTREATY
| Pronunciation: | | en'treetee
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| | Definition: | | [n] earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm" |
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| | Synonyms: | | appeal, prayer |
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| | See Also: | | adjuration, asking, courting, courtship, demagoguery, demagogy, plea, request, solicitation, suit, supplication, wooing | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | adjuration, aid prayer, Angelus, appeal, application, Ave, Ave Maria, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bid, bidding prayer, breviary, call, chaplet, clamor, collect, communion, contemplation, cry, devotions, grace, Hail Mary, impetration, imploration, imploring, imprecation, intercession, invocation, invocatory plea, Kyrie Eleison, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, Paternoster, petition, plea, prayer, prayer wheel, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving |
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