to entreat

Examples

• All

• Now that you seem to have grasped my predicament, I entreat you to do something about it.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Dear, might I entreat you to put Mr. Weston's heart at ease?

  Emma (1996)

• - But... - No, I entreat you.

  Love & Friendship (2016)

• Good sir, we must entreat the time alone.

  Romeo + Juliet (1996)

• - I entreat you to listen.

  Solomon and Sheba (1959)

• May I entreat you to see a special flower of mine?

  Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1997)

• I do entreat and beseech of you...

  Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

• In Khamenei's own words, "Rights cannot be achieved by entreating."

  Academic text (2011)

• When I got out, I thanked him, and he entreated me to abandon my doctrinaire position.

  Academic text (2002)

• ''Entreat me not to leave thee, for whither thou goest, l will go, and where thou lodgest, l will lodge.''

  The Work and the Glory (2004)

Synonyms

A

to ask

vsto entreat

∞ 1.0

To request that someone do something or meet a requirement

is narrower, focusing on urgent pleading rather than general expectation

A

to ask for

vsto entreat

∞ 1.0

To tell someone you want or need something

is specifically an urgent, earnest plea rather than a simple desire

R

to request

vsto entreat

∞ 1.0

To ask for something politely or formally

is more earnest and urgent, not only polite or formal in tone

B

to beg

vsto entreat

417 1.0

Ask someone very seriously and urgently for something

is the same plea but viewed as a more formal option

P

to press

vsto entreat

285 3.9

Ask someone firmly and repeatedly to do something

is a pleading appeal with earnest urgency rather than forceful pressure

P

to pray

vsto entreat

• Archaic

256 1.6

To beg someone urgently and humbly for something

is the general earnest or urgent plea outside of strictly religious use

P

to plead

vsto entreat

232 3.9

Ask someone urgently and emotionally for something

is the same notion but focuses more on urgent request than emotion

C

to call on

vsto entreat

• Formal

187 3.5

To ask someone to take action or give information, often in a meeting

is more personal and emotional, not only a formal public appeal

S

to solicit

vsto entreat

• Formal

48 6.8

To ask people for something, often in a formal or persistent way

is more urgent and emotional rather than mainly formal or persistent

B

to beseech

vsto entreat

• Formal

47 8.2

To ask someone earnestly for something

is similar but may emphasize urgency rather than fervent emotion

I

to implore

vsto entreat

• Formal

40 5.3

To ask someone very seriously to do or not do something

is urgent but often less desperate in emotional intensity

B

to bid

vsto entreat

• Archaic

28 3.5

To tell someone politely or formally to do something

is an urgent earnest plea, not an instruction or formal order

B

to beg for one's life

vsto entreat

• NSFW

5 7.4

Ask someone very strongly not to kill or hurt you

is the general urgent plea, not restricted to life threatening situations

S

to supplicate

vsto entreat

• Formal

3 9.6

To beg someone, often in prayer, for help or favor

is broader, used for urgent plea not limited to prayer or authority

B

to beg on one's knees

vsto entreat

• Informal

1 7.0

Ask someone for help or forgiveness while kneeling and looking very desperate

is similar but without the explicit physical posture or ritual

I

to intreat

vsto entreat

• Archaic

9.9

To ask someone very strongly for something

is the modern common form used instead of that older style

How Earnest

to implore

• Formal

40 5.3

to plead

232 3.9

to entreat

• Formal

12 8.1

to ask

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology