Definitions for entreaties

entreaties en·treat·y

Spelling: [en-tree-tee]
IPA: /ɛnˈtri ti/

Entreaties is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 616 anagrams from letters in entreaties (aeeeinrstt).

Definitions for entreaties

noun

  1. earnest request or petition; supplication.

Origin of entreaties

First recorded in 1515-25; entreat + -y3

Examples for entreaties

His level glance met Sir Richard's in earnestness and entreaty.

The words were those of entreaty, but the voice was that of authority.

It was an entreaty that she might be permitted to come and see me.

What you must read unmoved by the pity too far for entreaty.

Her entreaty was so earnest, that the boy had not the heart to stay there.

"Hear me," he went on, in an agony of entreaty mingled with something like anger.

That was my mother's position, and neither argument nor entreaty could move her from it.

Protesting that I had strong reasons to believe so, I renewed my entreaty.

How could I resist a request, perhaps an entreaty, from her?

She then went away, at her friend's entreaty, after emptying her purse in my nurse's hands.

Word Value for entreaties
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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