What is "entreats"

Usage examples of "entreats".

Lucrezia, dying of enjoyment, entreats me to stop, but, as I do not listen to her prayer, she tricks me, and the sweet Angelique makes her first sacrifice to the mother of love.

But if it be granted that the passions of the two sexes are of equal strength, how comes it that a man never refuses to gratify a woman who loves him and entreats him to be kind?

After putting everything in order, she closes the door because the wind is high, and in her anxiety not to lose one word of what I have to say, she entreats artlessly a little place near me.

The good priest, accepting that title as truly belonging to me, entreats my pardon for not having addressed me as such.

Casanova entreats their excellencies not to refuse the poor wretch this gift.

Plato entreats his absent mistress to fix eyes on a star: eyes on Beer for the uniting of you English!