(formal) to ask sb to do sth in a serious and often emotional way
SYNBEG, IMPLORE:
[VN] Please help me, I entreat you. * [VNtoinf] She entreated him not to go. [also Vspeech, VNspeech]
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, entreat is tagged as verb.
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