1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. lxxxxi/1 Syr Wyllyam of Lygnac & syr Gaultyer of Passac dyd so moche by theyr wyse entreatynge of the erle of Foyze y^t he suffred them peasybly to passe thrughe his countrey of Byerne.

1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 109 Hee had receiued his presse money, and therfore must goe, no intreating, nor no suinge: no complayning, nor any lamenting.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 52 Yet had he with great entreating, so preuailed.

1647 Moderate Intelligencer No. 137. 1350 Finding that neither his intreatings nor threatenings availed ought, he bethought himself of this Expedient.

1719 Daily Post 31 Dec. There is also in this Letter divers Expostulations with and Entreatings to the Imperial Court to espouse his just Cause.

1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. (at cited word) An entreating, or entreaty, Precatio.

1829 R. R. Madden Trav. Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, & Palestine II. xx. 312 In spite of my entreating, he got the courbash round his uncovered shoulders.

1868 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 11 Aug. She was a forty woman power in watching, in detecting, in caressing, in scolding, in beseeching, in entreating.

1911 B. Squire Woman Movement Amer. v. 89 Lost [were] all those weary days and nights of talking, arguing, discussing, and entreating in strange towns with strange people.

1925 Smith Alumnae Q. July 522/2 No amount of entreating would induce even one of them to speak to us.

2009 Antioch Rev. 67 365 Ralph resisted the entreatings of academic/cultural operators.

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea f. 11^v Alas to late aryse Entreatyng wordes.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel ii. 174 Very true as you say, the entreating word it selfe is no miracle.

1654 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes II. iv. ii. 257 He writ an intreating Letter unto him.

1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 629 When for Redress intreating Armies call.

1799 tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine Family Halden III. 54 The major's lady looked on her adopted son with moist and entreating eyes.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vi. 119 Her eyes..made a timid entreating appeal.

1913 E. Wharton Custom of Country ix. 115 Her entreating hands, her glowing face, were near enough to have shaken less sturdy nerves.

1997 C. B. Divakaruni Mistress of Spices 29 O Haroun, in your entreating eyes I see that a joy does not become real until you share it with someone dear, and in this far country who else do you have.

2010 Daily Mail (Nexis) 7 Aug. The sound of children's voices raised high above the entreating voices of their parents, who follow them around the pool and garden with a suppliant air.

1661 J. Caryl Expos. 32nd–34th Chapters Job (xxxiii. 1) 143 Elihu begins very mildly, sweetly, insinuatingly, even entreatingly, and beseechingly.

1850 J. A. St. John in Tait's Edinb. Mag. 17 25 Looking entreatingly into the face of the baker.

1915 W. Stephens tr. A. France Crainquebille 138 I could not refuse her, she asked so entreatingly.

2013 Jrnl. Ethiopian Stud. 46 126 I could watch Taddesse fondling a piece of that delicacy and dangling it entreatingly in front of Almaz.