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Pleading

//ˈpliːdɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    That pleads.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    begging wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of making a plea. countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding wordnet
  3. 3
    A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of plead form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, plead + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, plead + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, plead + -ing.

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