Meaning of intreaty | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“[…] Some haſty and undigeſted Thoughts, on a Subject I had never before conſidered, which I ſet down against our next Meeting, gave the firſt entrance into this Diſcourſe, which having been thus begun by Chance, was continued by Intreaty; […]”

“Their letters and intreaties determined him to conclude⟳ a treaty, by which he put⟳ his electorate into the hands of the emperor, on condition that his life ſhould be ſpared, and the city of Gotha given to his children, with a penſion of fifty thouſand florins.”

“If he had been wavering before, as to what he should do, which had often seemed likely, the advice and intreaty of so near a relation might settle⟳ every doubt⟳, and determine⟳ him at once to be as happy, as dignity unblemished could make⟳ him.”

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