pleading

sostantivo

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

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

verbo

1. 1

   Anche una forma di pleadpresent participle and gerund of plead

aggettivo

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.

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

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

   Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

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pleadings

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most pleading