pleading

Meanings

Plural: pleadings

Noun

• (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
• The act of making a plea.
• A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.

Verb

• appeal or request earnestly
• offer as an excuse or plea
  • "She was pleading insanity"
• enter a plea, as in courts of law
• make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
• present participle and gerund of plead

Adjective

• begging

Adj

• That pleads.

Synonyms

beseeching, imploring, plead

Antonyms

imperative

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