Entreat vs Crave - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between entreat and crave

is that entreat is to treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use while crave is to desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

As a noun entreat

is alternative form of lang=en.

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

crave

English

Verb

(crav)

To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

I know I should diet more, but every afternoon I crave a soda so I have one.

* Edmund Gurney

His path is one that eminently craves weary walking.

To ask for earnestly.

I humbly crave your indulgence to read this letter until the end.

* Shakespeare

I crave your honour's pardon.

* Bible, Mark xv. 43

Joseph went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

Derived terms

* craving

Anagrams

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