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Pleader

//ˈpliːdə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    a person who pleads in court; an advocate

    "“My District's worked by some man at Darjiling, on the strength of a native pleader's false reports. Oh, it's a heavenly place!”"

  2. 2
    a lawyer who pleads cases in court wordnet
  3. 3
    someone who pleads or implores

Etymology

Partly from Middle English pleder, pledere, equivalent to plead + -er; and partly from Middle English pledour, plaidour, from Anglo-Norman plaidur, pledour, Old French plaidëor, pledëor.

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