different between covet vs entreat

English

Etymology

From Middle English coveten, coveiten, coveyten, from Old French covoitier (modern French convoiter), from covoitié (“desire”), presumably modified from Latin cupiditas. First used in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?v??t
• IPA^(key): /?k?v?t/
• Rhymes: -?v?t

Verb

covet (third-person singular simple present covets, present participle coveting, simple past and past participle coveted)

1. (transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
2. (transitive) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
3. (intransitive) To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.

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Further reading

• covet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• covet in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman entretier, from Old French entraiter, from en- + traiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?i?t/, /?n?t?i?t/, /?n?t?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Verb

entreat (third-person singular simple present entreats, present participle entreating, simple past and past participle entreated)

1. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

     If you be she, I doe intreat your patience.
2. To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
   • 1789, John Rogers, The Nature and Influence of the Fear of God (sermon)

     It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, 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

3. (obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
4. (obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
   • 1627, George Hakewill, Apologie ... of the Power and Providence of God

     of which I shall have further occasion to intreate

   • 1611, King James Bible, 1 Maccabees x. 47

     Alexander […] was first that entreated of true peace with them.

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To make an earnest petition or request.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

     Fairly let her be entreated.

   • 1611 King James Bible, Jeremiah xv. 11

     I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.

Translations

Noun

entreat (plural entreats)

1. (obsolete) An entreaty.
   • 1661, Samuel Pordage, Mundorum Explicatio

     Let my entreats of Love prevail so far, / When for your happinesse they spoken are: […]

   • 2006, Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books,^[2] Rowman & Littlefield, ?ISBN, 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.

Anagrams

• Arnette, Ternate, ratteen, ternate