Defenition of the word pleading

• Defenition of the word pleading

  • expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice"
  • (law) an allegation in legal form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
  • (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
  • begging

Synonyms for the word pleading

• • advocacy
  • appealing
  • beseeching
  • defence
  • demanding
  • earnest
  • entreaty
  • imploring
  • importunate
  • insistent
  • intercession
  • persuasive
  • plea
  • supplication

Similar words in the pleading

• • beseeching
  • pleading
  • pleading's

Hyponyms for the word pleading

• • affirmative pleading
  • alternative pleading
  • answer
  • charge
  • complaint
  • defective pleading
  • demurrer
  • pleading in the alternative
  • rebuttal
  • rebutter
  • rejoinder
  • replication
  • special pleading
  • surrebuttal
  • surrebutter
  • surrejoinder

Hypernyms for the word pleading

• • allegation
  • allegement
  • statement

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