intreaty

plural intreaties

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of entreaty.

   If he had been wavering before, as to what he should do, which had often seemed likely, the advice and intreaty of so near a relation might settle every doubt, and determine him at once to be as happy, as dignity unblemished could make him.

   1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 260

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   […] Some haſty and undigeſted Thoughts, on a Subject I had never before conſidered, which I ſet down against our next Meeting, gave the firſt entrance into this Diſcourſe, which having been thus begun by Chance, was continued by Intreaty; […]

   1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “The Epistle to the Reader”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I

   Their letters and intreaties determined him to conclude a treaty, by which he put his electorate into the hands of the emperor, on condition that his life ſhould be ſpared, and the city of Gotha given to his children, with a penſion of fifty thouſand florins.

   1779, [Claude-François-Xavier] Millot; [unknown, transl.], Elements of General History, part second (Modern History), volume II, Dublin: […] Messrs. Price, Potts, R. Cross[,] Jenkin, Walker, Flinn, Exshaw, E. Cross, & White, page 321