Definitions for entreaty

entreaty en·treat·y

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

Entreaty is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in entreaty (aeenrtty).

Definitions for entreaty

noun

  1. earnest request or petition; supplication.

Origin of entreaty

First recorded in 1515-25; entreat + -y3

Examples for entreaty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for entreaty
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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