0 an attempt to persuade someone to do something:
She refused to become involved with him despite his passionate entreaties.
The stingier she is, the greater the entreaty.
This massive, single-author, book is an entreaty for comprehensive care of children with epilepsy for which the author offers a model.
And his embrace comes not from love, but from entreaty.
Finally, however, he yields to her entreaties and agrees to the marriage for reasons of state.
The latter, meanwhile, steadfastly refused all such demands or entreaties on the ground that they were merely tenants not owners of the land whose proprietor was the state.
To stay the hand is to bear the insult as well as the loss and this, despite the entreaties of religion, may be too much to bear.
All her entreaties are ignored, not only because of the priest, but also because relatives of her husband's second wife intervene, bribing anyone who is tempted to help her.
It is a natural instinct with man to give way to the entreaty of women.