Meaning
1 senses(obsolete)Synonym of entreaty (“an act of asking earnestly or begging for something”); an appeal, a plea.
Examples
11 sentencesI entreat your pardon.
Я благаю про Ваше помилування. — ChickenKiev
Do not abandon us, I entreat.
ruНе покидай нас, умоляю. — sivelock
I entreat you to help me.
I entreat you to go and see him.
He entreated his wife not to leave him.
Origin
The verb is derived from Late Middle English entreten (“to deal with (someone) in a specifThe verb is derived from Late Middle English entreten (“to deal with (someone) in a specified way; to concern oneself with (something); to deal with or give an account of (a topic); to engage in negotiation; to intercede for (someone); to plead with (someone)”), from Anglo-Norman entraiter, entretier (“to concern oneself with (something); to deal with (someone) in a specified manner; to have a conversation with (someone); to negotiate (with someone, or about something)”), Middle French entraiter, entraictier, and Old French entraictier (“to have a conversation with (someone); to concern oneself with (something)”), from en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + traiter (“to be concerned with (something); to treat (someone) in a specified way”) (from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to handle, manage; to drag, haul”), from trahō (“to drag, pull; etc.”) (see that entry for the further etymology) + -tō (frequentative suffix)).
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