What does intreaty mean?
Intreaty means Obsolete form of entreaty..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Obsolete form of entreaty..
[…] 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; […]
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.
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.
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Intreaty means Obsolete form of entreaty..
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[…] 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; […]
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