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Another word for entreaty

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Noun

  1. An earnest or urgent request

      1. A call upon some authority or person for a decision, opinion, etc.
      2. A court decision thus submitted
      3. A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision:
      1. The response of a defendant to criminal charges
      2. A special answer in an equity action, setting forth in lieu of a detailed response a basis for dismissing, delaying, or barring the suit.
      3. An earnest and urgent request; appeal; entreaty
      1. An act of communion with God, a god, or another object of worship, such as in devotion, confession, praise, or thanksgiving:
      2. The act of making a reverent petition to God, a god, or another object of worship:
      3. The thing requested:
      1. The act of supplicating
      2. A humble request, prayer, petition, etc.
    See also:

    ask

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Another word for entreaty

Noun
      1. (Law) A written formal request or plea in which specific court action is asked for
      2. A solemn, earnest supplication or request to a superior or deity or to a person or group in authority; prayer or entreaty
      3. (Law) A formal written application seeking a court's intervention and action on a matter:
      1. The act of supplicating
      2. A humble request, prayer, petition, etc.
      1. (Law) The defendant's answer to a formal criminal charge:
      2. A legal proceeding.
      3. An earnest and urgent request; appeal; entreaty
    See also:

    appeal

    request

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Sentence Examples

  • His face expressed entreaty, agitation, and ecstasy.

  • The last -that we hear of him is his humble entreaty to the Apostles to pray for him.

  • The king exerted all his personal influence to overcome Yorke's scruples, warning him finally that the great seal if now refused would never again be within his grasp. Yorke yielded to the king's entreaty, went to his brother's house, where he met the leaders of the Opposition, and feeling at once overwhelmed with shame, fled to his own house, where in three days he was a dead man (January 20, 1770).

  • What was thus " begun by chance, was continued by entreaty, written by incoherent parcels, and after long intervals of neglect resumed again as humour and occasions permitted."

  • In crowds they besieged the palace, and had already begun to take vengeance on the foreign monks and sailors who had come from Chalcedon to the metropolis, when, at the entreaty of Eudoxia, the emperor consented to his recall.

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