Entreat vs. Intreat — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Entreat or Intreat
How to spell Entreat?
Entreat
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Intreat
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Entreat Definitions
Entreat is a live album by British alternative rock band The Cure, recorded at London's Wembley Arena in July 1989. It consists entirely of songs performed from the band's 1989 record Disintegration; while they were on their international Prayer tour.
Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something
His friends entreated him not to go
Treat (someone) in a specified manner
The King, I fear, hath ill entreated her
To make an earnest request of (someone).
To ask for earnestly; petition for
"She made a hasty gesture with her hand, as if to entreat my patience and my silence" (Charles Dickens).
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(Archaic) To deal with; treat.
To make an earnest request or petition.
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly.
To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
(obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
(obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
To make an earnest petition or request.
To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
An entreaty.
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
I must entreat of you some of that money.
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife.
To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.
To invite; to entertain.
To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
Of which I shall have further occasion to entreat.
Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them.
Entreaty.
Ask for or request earnestly;
The prophet bid all people to become good persons
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