intreaty

English

Noun

intreaty (countable and uncountable, plural intreaties)

1. Obsolete form of entreaty.
   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “The Epistle to the Reader”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I:

     […] 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; […]

   • 1779, [Claude-François-Xavier] Millot, [unknown, transl.], Elements of General History, part second (Modern History), volume II, Dublin: […] Messrs. Price, Potts, R. Cross[,] Jenkin, Walker, Flinn, Exshaw, E. Cross, & White, page 321:

     Their letters and intreaties determined him to conclude a treaty, by which he put his electorate into the hands of the emperor, on condition that his life ſhould be ſpared, and the city of Gotha given to his children, with a penſion of fifty thouſand florins.

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 260:

     If he had been wavering before, as to what he should do, which had often seemed likely, the advice and intreaty of so near a relation might settle every doubt, and determine him at once to be as happy, as dignity unblemished could make him.