Definition of "entreaty"

In all commands or entreaties, the ſtate commanded, or entreated, muſt be contingent; i. e. capable of being, or not being, as the command or entreaty expreſſes it.

1779, William Ward, An Essay on Grammar as it may be applied to the English Language, New Edition, page 202

We can readily imagine circumstances in which an utterance of the words "Don't go" would be correctly described not as a request or an order, but as an entreaty.

1964 October, P. F. Strawson, Intention and Convention in Speech Acts, The Philosophical Review, Volume 73, Number 4, page 444

The entreaties of a lover and the rejection of the heroine lend charm to the stanza.

2002, N. P. Unni, Makers of Indian Literature: Amaruka, Sahitya Akademi, page 32