entreaties
Heartfelt earnest requests
Entreaties are earnest, urgent requests or pleas.
The word carries a sense of emotional appeal—someone making entreaties isn't just asking but imploring, often from a position of less power: Despite her entreaties, he refused to change his mind.
The singular entreaty appears less frequently than the plural.
Earnest requests or supplications
- appealsRequests for reconsideration
- petitionsFormal requests for action
- prayersReverent petitions to deity
- supplicationsHumble, earnest requests
solicitations · intercessions · adjurations · invocations · requests · overtures · prostration · groveling
Persuading through gentle persistence
- cajolingPersuading through flattery
- wheedlingPersuading through flattery
- urgingStrongly encouraging action
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
lobbying · convincing · prevailing · swaying · inducing · encouraging · reasoning · arguing
pleas
Earnest requests or supplications
- appealsRequests for reconsideration
- petitionsFormal requests for action
- prayersReverent petitions to deity
supplications · solicitations · intercessions · adjurations · invocations · requests · overtures · prostration · groveling · beseeching
coaxing
Persuading through gentle persistence
- cajolingPersuading through flattery
- wheedlingPersuading through flattery
- urgingStrongly encouraging action
pressing · lobbying · convincing · prevailing · swaying · inducing · encouraging · reasoning · arguing · rhetoric
heed
Give careful attention
resist · yield · relent · grant · deny · spurn · rebuff · refuse · accede · comply
- commandsgo, stop, wait, come, run
- outcriescries, screams, shouts, yells, howls
- protestsprotest, demonstration, protest march, demonstrations, rallies
- prayersOur Father, morning prayers, Lord's Prayer, daily prayers, evening prayers
entreatiesthreats
Declarations of intended harm
denunciations · condemnations · rebukes · reprimands · censures
entreatiesrefusals
Acts of declining
rejections · prohibitions · denials · rebuffs · dismissals