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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun entreaty has 1 sense
- entreaty(n = noun.communication) appeal, prayer - earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm" is a kind of asking, request
has particulars: adjuration, demagoguery, demagogy, plea, supplication, solicitation, suit, courting, courtship, suit, wooing
CIDE DICTIONARY
entreaty, n.
- Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. [1913 Webster]"Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment."
Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; importunity.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
entreaty, n. (pl. -ies) an earnest request; a supplication.
Etymology
ENTREAT, after TREATY
THESAURUS
entreaty
Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, adjuration, aid prayer, appeal, application, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bid, bidding prayer, breviary, call, chaplet, clamor, collect, communion, contemplation, cry, devotions, grace, impetration, imploration, imploring, imprecation, intercession, invocation, invocatory plea, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, plea, prayer, prayer wheel, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgivingROGET THESAURUS
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Request
N request, requisition, claim, petition, suit, prayer, begging letter, round robin, motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe, imprecation, rogation, proposal, proposition, orison, incantation, mendicancy, asking, begging, postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation, requesting, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, postulant, obsecratory, importunate, clamorous, urgent, cap in hand, on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones, prithee, do, please, pray, be so good as, be good enough, have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please, Int, for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!, Dieu vous garde, dirigenos Domine, would you be so kind as to.
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