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Untreated vs Entreated - What's the difference?

untreated | entreated |

As an adjective untreated

is not treated.

As a verb entreated is

(entreat).

untreated

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not treated.

    • Antonyms

    * treated

    entreated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (entreat)

    • 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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