entreating in English

verb

1

ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.

his friends entreated him not to go

synonyms: implore, beg, plead with, pray, ask, request, bid, enjoin, appeal to, call on, petition, solicit, importune, beseech

2

treat (someone) in a specified manner.

the King, I fear, hath ill entreated her

verb

• implore, beg, plead with, pray, ask, request, bid, enjoin, appeal to, call on, petition, solicit, importune, beseech
• bid, beseech, conjure, press, adjure

Use "entreating" in a sentence

1. I spent many nights tearfully entreating Jehovah about these matters.

2. Beseechment (noun) the act of beseeching or entreating earnestly How to pronounce Beseechment?

3. Beseeching: 1 adj begging Synonyms: imploring , pleading adjuratory earnestly or solemnly entreating importunate expressing earnest entreaty mendicant practicing beggary petitionary of the nature of or expressing a petition precative , precatory expressing entreaty or supplication suppliant , supplicant , supplicatory humbly entreating

4.  · Cinesias Entreating Myrrhina to Coition, Illustration from Lysistrata by Aristophanes 1896 Giclee Print by Aubrey Beardsley

5. Yet, Jehovah commanded him: “Do not pray in behalf of this people, neither raise in their behalf an entreating cry or a prayer nor beseech me, for I shall not be listening to you.”