entreaty

[ en-tree-tee ]

noun

, plural en·treat·ies.

1. earnest request or petition; supplication.

   Synonyms: solicitation, plea, suit, appeal

entreaty

/ ɪnˈtriːtɪ /

noun

1. an earnest request or petition; supplication; plea

Word History and Origins

Origin of entreaty¹

First recorded in 1515–25; entreat + -y ³

Example Sentences

He resisted that entreaty to spend two years writing his best-selling memoir, My American Journey.

From The Daily Beast

With that no longer a reliable source, they’ve been more vulnerable to the entreaties of a militant group willing to pay them a steady income to take up arms against a discredited regime — one that let them down.

From Ozy

No matter how he pleaded, no matter the entreaties of witnesses on the scene, Chauvin was unmoved.

From The Daily Beast

Pfizer, which has already committed to providing the government 100 million doses, said that as recently as October, federal officials had turned down its entreaties to lock in another 100 million doses.

From Washington Post

Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.

From Project Gutenberg

The music grew strange and fantastic—turbulent, insistent, plaintive and soft with entreaty.

From Project Gutenberg

But this entreaty had not passed her lips before M. Dufour started after Frederick.

From Project Gutenberg

No entreaty could induce them to retire, to rest themselves for the painful and arduous duties of the morrow.

From Project Gutenberg

At a gesture he gave of mute entreaty she went to the door, slowly and heavily, with dragging step.

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