Synonyms for entreat
ɛnˈtriten·treat

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1. entreat

   One asks what he feels that he may fairly claim and reasonably expect; "if a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father," Luke xi, 11; he begs for that to which he advances no claim but pity. Demand is a determined and often an arrogant word; one may rightfully demand what is his own or his due, when it is withheld or denied; or he may wrongfully demand that to which he has no claim but power. Require is less arrogant and obtrusive than demand, but is exceedingly strenuous; as, the court requires the attendance of witnesses. Entreat implies a special earnestness of asking, and beseech, a still added and more humble intensity; beseech was formerly often used as a polite intensive for beg or pray; as, I beseech you to tell me. To implore is to ask with weeping and lamentation; to supplicate is to ask, as it were, on bended knees. Crave and request are somewhat formal terms; crave has almost disappeared from conversation; request would seem distant between parent and child. Pray is now used chiefly of address to the Supreme Being; petition is used of written request to persons in authority; as, to petition the legislature to pass an act, or the governor to pardon an offender.

   Synonyms:
   ask, beg, beseech, crave, demand, implore, petition, pray, request, require, solicit, supplicate

   Antonyms:
   claim, command, deny, enforce, exact, extort, insist, refuse, reject

   Preposition:
   Ask a person for a thing; ask a thing of or from a person; ask after or about one's health, welfare, friends, etc.

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1. entreatverb

   Synonyms:
   implore, obsecrate, beg, beseech, importune, crave, solicit, supplicate, pray, ask, urge, petition

   Antonyms:
   command, insist, bid, enjoin

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1. bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjureverb

   ask for or request earnestly

   "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"

   Synonyms:
   fight, put forward, iron out, evoke, tender, invite, weigh, press, agitate, adjure, stir, call down, urge on, weight-lift, arouse, cabal, compress, urge, offer, call, press out, conjure up, beseech, contract, iron, complot, crusade, raise, squeeze, conspire, compact, call forth, invoke, exhort, bring up, bid, push, wish, campaign, conjure, constrict, machinate, weightlift

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1. entreatverb

   Synonyms:
   beg, crave, beseech, implore, supplicate, ADJURE, solicit, pray, importune, petition, enjoin, appeal to, prefer a prayer to

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1. Patrick O'Brian:

   If you really must beat the measure, sir, let me entreat you to do so in time, and not half a beat ahead.

2. Charlotte Brontë:

   You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.