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entreaty

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invocation
noun. prayer
  • abracadabra
  • appeal
  • beseeching
  • calling
  • command
  • conjuration
  • entreaty
  • hocus-pocus
  • hoodoo
  • mumbo jumbo
  • petition
  • rune
  • summons
  • supplication
  • voodoo

petition
noun. appeal, plea
  • address
  • application
  • entreaty
  • imploration
  • imprecation
  • invocation
  • memorial
  • prayer
  • request
  • round robin
  • solicitation
  • suit
  • supplication

plea
noun. begging request
  • appeal
  • application
  • entreaty
  • imploration
  • imprecation
  • intercession
  • orison
  • overture
  • petition
  • prayer
  • round robin
  • solicitation
  • suit
  • supplication

plead
verb. beg, request
  • appeal
  • ask
  • beseech
  • cop a plea
  • crave
  • crawl
  • entreat
  • entreaty
  • implore
  • importune
  • make up for
  • petition
  • pray
  • solicit
  • square things
  • supplicate

prayer
noun. pleading, especially with a deity;
  • answer adoration
  • appeal
  • application
  • begging
  • benediction
  • beseeching
  • communion
  • devotion
  • entreaty
  • grace
  • imploration
  • imploring
  • imprecation
  • invocation
  • litany
  • orison
  • petition
  • plea
  • pleading
  • request
  • request for help
  • rogation
  • service
  • suit
  • supplication
  • worship

request
noun. question or petition
  • appeal
  • application
  • asking
  • begging
  • call
  • commercial
  • demand
  • desire
  • entreaty
  • inquiry
  • invitation
  • offer
  • prayer
  • recourse
  • requisition
  • solicitation
  • suit
  • supplication

suit
noun. appeal, request
  • address
  • application
  • asking
  • attention
  • court
  • courtship
  • entreaty
  • imploration
  • imprecation
  • invocation
  • petition
  • plea
  • prayer
  • requesting
  • solicitation
  • soliciting
  • supplication
  • wooing

supplication
noun. appeal
  • ave
  • entreaty
  • litany
  • obsecration
  • petition
  • plea
  • prayer
  • request
  • rogation
  • solicitation

imploration
noun. appeal
  • address
  • adjuration
  • application
  • bid
  • call
  • claim
  • demand
  • entreaty
  • importunity
  • invocation
  • overture
  • petition
  • plea
  • prayer
  • proposal
  • proposition
  • question
  • recourse
  • requisition
  • solicitation
  • submission
  • suit
  • supplication
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Word Origin & History

entreaty 1520s; see entreat.

Example Sentences for entreaty

"Hear me," he went on, in an agony of entreaty mingled with something like anger.

She then went away, at her friend's entreaty, after emptying her purse in my nurse's hands.

Her entreaty was so earnest, that the boy had not the heart to stay there.

That was my mother's position, and neither argument nor entreaty could move her from it.

The words were those of entreaty, but the voice was that of authority.

What you must read unmoved by the pity too far for entreaty.

His level glance met Sir Richard's in earnestness and entreaty.

It was an entreaty that she might be permitted to come and see me.

Protesting that I had strong reasons to believe so, I renewed my entreaty.

How could I resist a request, perhaps an entreaty, from her?

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