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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Entreaty \En*treat"y\, n.; pl {Entreaties}.
1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] --B. Jonson
2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer;
earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. --Spenser.
Syn: Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; importunity.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
entreaty
n : earnest or urgent request [syn: {prayer}, {appeal}]
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