pleading
/ˈpliːdɪŋ/
pleading noun: the act of making a plea. Also the present participle and gerund of plead.
Noun
pleading (countable and uncountable, plural pleadings)
- The act of making a plea.
- But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy
- A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.
Adjective
pleading (comparative more pleading, superlative most pleading)
- 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.1955, Émile Zola, Ann Lindsay, Earth, page 251
- With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.1999, Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins, page 599
Also used as
pleading is also the present participle and gerund of plead.
pleading meaning in Tamil and Arabic
pleading in Tamil
- மன்றாடுதல்
pleading in Arabic
- Translations
- مُرَافَعَة murāfaʕa
Examples of pleading in a sentence
- Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.1993, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Psalms, page 225:
- Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
Forms of pleading
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pleadings |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more pleading |
| superlative | most pleading |
Origin of pleading
By surface analysis, plead + -ing.
Words formed from pleading
Phrases with pleading
Words that rhyme with pleading
Questions about pleading
- What does pleading mean?
- Pleading means the act of making a plea.
- What is pleading in Tamil?
- Pleading in Tamil is மன்றாடுதல். See Pleading meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use pleading in a sentence?
- Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.
- What part of speech is pleading?
- Pleading can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce pleading?
- Pleading is pronounced /ˈpliːdɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of pleading?
- The plural of pleading is pleadings.
Words near pleading in the dictionary
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