pleading

English

Noun

pleading (plural pleadings)

1. (law) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.

Verb

pleading

1. Present participle of plead.

Adjective

pleading (comparative more pleading, superlative most pleading)

1. Of or pertaining to that which pleads.
   • 1955, Émile Zola, Ann Lindsay, Earth, p. 251:

     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.

   • 1999, Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins, p. 599:

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

   • 1993, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Psalms, p. 225:

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

Derived terms

• pleadingly

Anagrams

• pedaling