Dictionary Definition
entreaty n : earnest or urgent request; "an
entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to
the public to keep calm" [syn: prayer, appeal]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
- an entreaty to stop the hostilities
- A treatment; reception; entertainment.
Translations
petition, solicitation, prayer
- Finnish: vetoomus
Extensive Definition
Entreaty was a black New Zealand breeding
mare.
She bred eleven horses, one of which was the legendary Phar Lap.
Entreaty's first foal,
Fortune's Wheel, a filly by Night Raid,
showed no potential as a racehorse. After Phar Lap's success
Fortune's Wheel was put back to work again but failed to make the
grade. Entreaty had ten more foals after Phar Lap but none
possessed anything like Phar Lap's extraordinary ability. Entreaty
died in 1943.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie
Eleison, Paternoster, adjuration, aid prayer,
appeal, application, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bid, bidding prayer, breviary, call, chaplet, clamor, collect, communion, contemplation, cry, devotions, grace, impetration, imploration, imploring, imprecation, intercession, invocation, invocatory plea,
litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, plea, prayer, prayer wheel, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving