entreativeadj.

1598 L. A. tr. G. Fernandez Honour of Chiualrie xxviii. 167 The Duke, by intreatiue meanes, to make it knowne vnto Don Bellianis, and to this ende, the Princesse Aurora shoulde visite him in Prison.

1607 T. Tomkis Lingua sig. A4^v Oft [have I] embelisht my entreatiue phrase With smelling flowres of vernant Rhetorique.

1727 Templer's Bill of Complaint 9 With intreative Eyes, and all The Rhetoric of Looks, I crave a Flask of venerable Bencher.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. ii. 30 All gentle, all intreative, my accent.

1832 R. H. Hickory in Fraser's Mag. Town & Country Oct. 374/1 The gentleman, when he gave this print, was most entreative that I should stay to see ‘the coronation of the sovereign people’.

1871 W. Russell Jack Thurlow & I viii. 127 I was within hearing of her voice, but I was much astonished at its tone—at once entreative, sad, reproachful.

1903 E. Pugh Stumbling-block xvii. 137 All this Jill lisped out with a sort of diffident earnestness, half smiling, an entreative, deprecatory note in her sibilant tones.

1964 M. R. Haas Thai–Eng. Students' Dict. 479/1 Pt particle used often with mildly entreative and/or mildly corroborative force.

2010 Enniscorthy (County Wexford) Echo (Nexis) 24 June Guiseppe was her choice of partner for life and all the entreative approaches of her father and mother failed to shake her resolve to marry him.