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Entreat vs Invoke - What's the difference?

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Entreat is a related term of invoke.


As verbs the difference between entreat and invoke

is that entreat is (obsolete) to treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use while invoke is to call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

As a noun entreat

is .

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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    invoke

    English

    Alternative forms

    * envoke

    Verb

    (invok)
  • To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
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  • To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
  • In certain Christian circles invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.
  • To conjure up with incantations.
  • This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
  • To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
  • Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
  • To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
  • The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another draught.
  • (computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
  • Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
  • * C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax. — Stephen Prata.
  • Synonyms

    * invocate * (sense) call, execute, run

    Derived terms

    * invoker