Pleading

Quick meaning: Pleading is a noun meaning The act of making a plea.

Meaning

The act of making a plea.

More Meanings

1. (law) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.
2. present participle and gerund of plead
3. That pleads.

Example Sentences

With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.

Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.

But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.

Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.

Word Forms

• pleadings

Synonyms for pleading

Depending on context, synonyms include imploring, appealing, beseeching, importunate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beseeching, imploring, appealing, importunate, plea, claiming.

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