Entreaty
noun
A serious and emotional request for something.
Her last entreaty was for them to remember to love each other.
Often appears as...
- desperate entreaty
- vain entreaty
noun
A serious and emotional request for something.
Her last entreaty was for them to remember to love each other.
Often appears as...
- desperate entreaty
- vain entreaty
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Used to express profound emotions, often in serious or urgent situations.
In a tearful entreaty, she begged the judge for leniency.
Pro Tip 2/3Formality Level
'Entreaty' is formal, best used in written English or formal speech rather than casual conversation.
The ambassador's entreaty to the council was met with silence.
Pro Tip 3/3Persuasive Intent
An 'entreaty' aims to persuade someone to do something by appealing to their emotions.
His entreaty to stop the destruction of the forest was powerful and moving.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Used to express profound emotions, often in serious or urgent situations.
In a tearful entreaty, she begged the judge for leniency.
Pro Tip 2/3Formality Level
'Entreaty' is formal, best used in written English or formal speech rather than casual conversation.
The ambassador's entreaty to the council was met with silence.
Pro Tip 3/3Persuasive Intent
An 'entreaty' aims to persuade someone to do something by appealing to their emotions.
His entreaty to stop the destruction of the forest was powerful and moving.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Used to express profound emotions, often in serious or urgent situations.
In a tearful entreaty, she begged the judge for leniency.
Pro Tip 2/3Formality Level
'Entreaty' is formal, best used in written English or formal speech rather than casual conversation.
The ambassador's entreaty to the council was met with silence.
Pro Tip 3/3Persuasive Intent
An 'entreaty' aims to persuade someone to do something by appealing to their emotions.
His entreaty to stop the destruction of the forest was powerful and moving.
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Video examples
Amanda Bennett: We need...
as if courageous, as it becomes you who were worthy of such a city, approach the window with a firm step, and with emotion, but not with the entreaties
Video examples
Leopard Seal Kills...
The chick responds and they slowly home in on one another. The plaintive entreaties of the chick stimulate the adult to regurgitate a mouthful of fish.
Video examples
Amanda Bennett: We need...
as if courageous, as it becomes you who were worthy of such a city, approach the window with a firm step, and with emotion, but not with the entreaties
Video examples
Leopard Seal Kills...
The chick responds and they slowly home in on one another. The plaintive entreaties of the chick stimulate the adult to regurgitate a mouthful of fish.
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Quote examples
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
American Clergyman
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
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Joni Mitchell
Canadian Musician
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
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George Wallace
American Politician
The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.
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Maryanne Trump Barry
American Judge
I refuse to believe that 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...' is now an empty entreaty. But if it is, shame on us.
Quote examples
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
American Clergyman
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Quote examples
Joni Mitchell
Canadian Musician
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
Quote examples
George Wallace
American Politician
The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.
Quote examples
Maryanne Trump Barry
American Judge
I refuse to believe that 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...' is now an empty entreaty. But if it is, shame on us.
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