How to pronounce“pleading”in English
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Definitions of “pleading”
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.”
A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.
present participle and gerund of plead
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.”
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