Intreaty
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Obsolete form of entreaty. alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
"[…] 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; […]"
Example
More examples"[…] 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; […]"
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