Dictionary entry

Entreaty

Webster's Dictionary 1913

En‐treat″y, n.; pl.Entreaties (�). 1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. 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.