Jan Hus

I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.

Czechoslovakian Philosopher

William Adams

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

English Explorer

Lajos Kossuth

I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

Hungarian Lawyer

Archibald Alexander

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

American Clergyman

I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.

I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.

Ben Jonson

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

English Poet

Use 'entreat' when making a serious and heartfelt request, showing deep sincerity.

Earnest Request

Apply 'entreat' when expressing an urgent plea or a sense of anxiety over a request.

Anxious Plea

'Entreat' is often used in formal contexts or in written English rather than casual conversation.

Formal Context

Use 'entreat' in its archaic sense to describe treating someone with considerable respect or care.

Respectful Treatment

In historical or literary contexts, 'entreat' can reflect the etiquettes of past societies.

Historical Usage

Understand that using 'entreat' for 'treat' can sound old-fashioned or out of place in modern English.