Entreat
verb
To ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.
I entreat you to help me in this matter.
Often appears as...
- entreat someone to do
- entreat for
verb
To treat someone in a specified manner.
He entreated those employees with respect and kindness.
Often appears as...
- entreat someone with
- entreat with respect
Usage tips
Approving
verb
To ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.
I entreat you to help me in this matter.
Often appears as...
- entreat someone to do
- entreat for
verb
To treat someone in a specified manner.
He entreated those employees with respect and kindness.
Often appears as...
- entreat someone with
- entreat with respect
Usage tips
Approving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Earnest Request
Use 'entreat' when making a serious and heartfelt request, showing deep sincerity.
I entreat you to reconsider your decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Anxious Plea
Apply 'entreat' when expressing an urgent plea or a sense of anxiety over a request.
She entreated the judge for mercy.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
'Entreat' is often used in formal contexts or in written English rather than casual conversation.
We earnestly entreat your support for our charity event.
Pro Tip 1/3Earnest Request
Use 'entreat' when making a serious and heartfelt request, showing deep sincerity.
I entreat you to reconsider your decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Anxious Plea
Apply 'entreat' when expressing an urgent plea or a sense of anxiety over a request.
She entreated the judge for mercy.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
'Entreat' is often used in formal contexts or in written English rather than casual conversation.
We earnestly entreat your support for our charity event.
Pro Tip 1/3Earnest Request
Use 'entreat' when making a serious and heartfelt request, showing deep sincerity.
I entreat you to reconsider your decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Anxious Plea
Apply 'entreat' when expressing an urgent plea or a sense of anxiety over a request.
She entreated the judge for mercy.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
'Entreat' is often used in formal contexts or in written English rather than casual conversation.
We earnestly entreat your support for our charity event.
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Quote examples
Jan Hus
Czechoslovakian Philosopher
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
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William Adams
English Explorer
Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
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Lajos Kossuth
Hungarian Lawyer
I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
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Archibald Alexander
American Clergyman
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
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Jan Hus
Czechoslovakian Philosopher
I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.
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Jan Hus
Czechoslovakian Philosopher
I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.
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Ben Jonson
English Poet
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Quote examples
Jan Hus
Czechoslovakian Philosopher
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
Quote examples
William Adams
English Explorer
Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
Quote examples
Lajos Kossuth
Hungarian Lawyer
I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
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Archibald Alexander
American Clergyman
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
Quote examples
Jan Hus
Czechoslovakian Philosopher
I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.
Quote examples
Jan Hus
Czechoslovakian Philosopher
I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.
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Ben Jonson
English Poet
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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