Beseech vs. Entreat — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Beseech and Entreat
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Beseech
Beseech is a gothic metal band from Borås, Sweden. They disbanded in 2006, and re-formed with a different line-up at the end of 2013.
Entreat
Entreat is a live album by British alternative rock band The Cure, recorded at London's Wembley Arena in July 1989. It consists entirely of songs performed from the band's 1989 record Disintegration; while they were on their international Prayer tour.
Beseech
To address an earnest or urgent request to; implore
Beseech them for help.
Entreat
Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something
His friends entreated him not to go
Beseech
To request earnestly; beg for
"She unnerved him by receiving him in bed, bursting into tears, and beseeching his pardon" (Leo Damrosch).
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Entreat
Treat (someone) in a specified manner
The King, I fear, hath ill entreated her
Beseech
To beg or implore a person
Entreat
To make an earnest request of (someone).
Beseech
To request or beg for
Entreat
To ask for earnestly; petition for
"She made a hasty gesture with her hand, as if to entreat my patience and my silence" (Charles Dickens).
Beseech
(archaic) A request.
Entreat
(Archaic) To deal with; treat.
Beseech
To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts.
But Eve . . . besought his peace.
Entreat
To make an earnest request or petition.
Beseech
Solicitation; supplication.
Entreat
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly.
Beseech
Ask for or request earnestly;
The prophet bid all people to become good persons
Entreat
To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
Entreat
(obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
Entreat
(obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
Entreat
To make an earnest petition or request.
Entreat
To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
Entreat
An entreaty.
Entreat
To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
Fairly let her be entreated.
I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.
Entreat
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
I must entreat of you some of that money.
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife.
Entreat
To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.
Entreat
To invite; to entertain.
Entreat
To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
Of which I shall have further occasion to entreat.
Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them.
Entreat
To make an earnest petition or request.
The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men.
Entreat
Entreaty.
Entreat
Ask for or request earnestly;
The prophet bid all people to become good persons
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