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Besought vs Entreat - What's the difference?

besought | entreat |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between besought and entreat

is that besought is (obsolete) (beseech) while entreat is (obsolete) to make an earnest petition or request.

As verbs the difference between besought and entreat

is that besought is (obsolete) (beseech) while entreat is (obsolete) to treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

As a noun entreat is

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besought

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (beseech)

    • beseech

    English

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    Verb

  • To beg or implore.
  • * 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , London, Oxford University Press, 1973, § 25:
    • after what manner, I beseech you, must the mind proceed in this operation?
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 61:
    • She besought him, for his Soul's sake to speak the truth.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Panting a little in his haste, he told her how miserable he was; he besought her to have mercy on him; he promised, if she would forgive him, to do everything she wanted.

    Related terms

    * seek

    Noun

    (beseeches)
  • (archaic) A request.
  • * 1839 , Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Darley, The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Volume 1 :
    • Good madam, hear the suit that Edith urges, With such submiss beseeches ; [...]

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    * English irregular verbs

    entreat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 2006 , Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books , Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 978-0-7425-5094-0, page 236:
    • In the Muslim world, the most compelling and decisive books are those full of confessions written on the flesh of victims, and the most earnest prayers are the entreats for mercy screamed in pain and anguish at the tormentors and flesh and thought.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Fairly let her be entreated .
  • * Bible, Jer. xv. 11
    • I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.
  • To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do entreat your patience.
  • * Edgar Allan Poe
    • some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
  • To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
  • * Rogers
    • It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat .
  • * 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
    • “But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady,” said the footman; “nor can any of the servants. Mrs. Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone; but she has taken a chair in the chimney-comer, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here.”
  • * 1937 , Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney:
    • One heart / Tenderly beating / Ever entreating / Constant and true
  • (obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
  • * Spenser
    • pleasures to entreat
  • (obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
  • * Hakewill
    • of which I shall have further occasion to entreat
  • * Bible, 1 Mac. x. 47
    • Alexander was first that entreated of true peace with them.
  • (obsolete) To make an earnest petition or request.
  • * Knolles
    • The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men.

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