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pleadingness

pleadingness noun: the quality of being pleading.

Noun

pleadingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being pleading.
    • This love, unknown to themselves, even while for ever felt, was not unmarked by the Duchess; and her looks had already interrogated those of Kara Aziek, with a sort of pleadingness for her son's happiness, […]1817, Anna Maria Porter, Don Sebastian, page 266

Origin of pleadingness

From pleading + -ness.

Questions about pleadingness

What does pleadingness mean?
Pleadingness means the quality of being pleading.
What part of speech is pleadingness?
Pleadingness is a noun.

Words near pleadingness in the dictionary

  1. pleading the belly
  2. pleading the blood of Jesus
  3. pleading the fifth
  4. pleading up
  5. pleadingly
  6. pleadingness
  7. pleadings
  8. pleads
  9. pleads down
  10. pleads out
  11. pleads over

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