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entreat
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synonyms: enjoin, adjure ???
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Definition:to beg or ask anxiously
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We apologize in due form: we are in despair, we entreat forgiveness for the unfortunate misunderstanding.
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I felt compelled to admit that it might be so, and had an impulse upon me to go down again and entreat Joe to walk with me in the morning.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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I will flap Ferardo in the mouth with some conceit, and fill his old head so full of new fables, that thou shalt rather be earnestly entreated to repair to his house, than evil entreated to leave it.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible, describing to him the use and the nature of it:
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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"Nay, sir, not yet; I do entreat. And I do dare, sir— to be forbearing! Shall we not understand each other better than hitherto, Captain Ahab?"
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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He had his hand in her hair; Hareton attempted to release her locks, entreating him not to hurt her that once.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Charles and Hal begged her to get off and walk, pleaded with her, entreated, the while she wept and importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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