intreaty

noun

1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of entreaty.

   “[…] 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.”