Definition of Entreat

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Entreat

To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.

To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.

To invite; to entertain.

To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.

To make an earnest petition or request.

Entreaty.

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Entreat Quotations

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.
Will Adams

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.
Lajos Kossuth

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.
Archibald Alexander

Entreat Translations

entreat in German is ersuchen
entreat in Latin is precor, oro, obtestor
entreat in Spanish is demandar

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