entreaty

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENTRE'ATY, noun Urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation; supplication. The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. Proverbs 18:1.
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