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▪ I. enˈtreating, vbl. n.|ɛnˈtriːtɪŋ|
[f. entreat v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb entreat in various senses.
1. a. Treatment (of); dealing (with a person).
1529More Heresyes ii. Wks. 190/2 Thanke me for y⊇ good intreting of them both. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 193 Subiections, bondages and ill intreatings. 1614J. Day Festivals (1615), What St. Austin tels us..to put us in minde of the good intreating of our Servants.
b. Discussion (of); dealing (with a subject).
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 234 In the entreatynge of these matters. 1551Turner Herbal i. K j a, One of them is spoken of in the intreatyng of Camomyll. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Maniement, a handling, a vsing, an intreating.
c. Negotiation.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 89 A towne that will heare intreatings is halfe lost.
2. Beseeching.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 52 Yet had he with great intreating so preuailed.
▪ II. entreating, ppl. a.|ɛnˈtriːtɪŋ|
[f. entreat v. + -ing2.]
That entreats, in senses of the verb.
1718Rowe tr. Lucan i. 629 When for Redress intreating Armies call. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. vi, Her eyes..made a timid entreating appeal.
Hence enˈtreatingly adv.
1850J. A. St. John in Tait's Mag. XVII. 25 Looking entreatingly into the face of the baker. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt II. xxvii. 179 ‘No’, said Felix, entreatingly. ‘Don't move yet’. |