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Entreat vs Claim - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between entreat and claim

is that entreat is alternative form of lang=en while claim is a demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).

As verbs the difference between entreat and claim

is that entreat is to treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use while claim is to demand ownership of.

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.

    Anagrams

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    claim

    English

    Alternative forms

    * claym (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
  • A new statement of truth made about something, usually when the statement has yet to be verified.
  • A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush)
  • (legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
  • Usage notes

    * Demand ownership of land not previously owned. One usually stakes a claim. * The legal sense. One usually makes a claim. See

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To demand ownership of.
  • To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
  • To demand ownership or right to use for land.
  • (legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
  • To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
  • * John Locke
  • We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims , came by his authority.
  • To proclaim.
  • (Spenser)
  • To call or name.
  • (Spenser)

    Anagrams

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