Definitions for pleadings

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pleadings plead·ing

Spelling: [plee-ding]

IPA: /ˈpli dɪŋ/

Pleadings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 793 anagrams from letters in pleadings (adegilnps).

Definitions for pleadings

noun

1. the act of a person who pleads.
2. Law. the advocating of a cause in a court of law. the art or science of setting forth or drawing pleas in legal causes. a formal statement, usually written, setting forth the cause of action or defense of a case. pleadings, the successive statements delivered alternately by plaintiff and defendant until the issue is joined.

Origin of pleadings

1250-1300; Middle English pledynge (gerund). See plead, -ing¹

Examples for pleadings

After delays, excuses, pleadings, Julie's father lost patience.

He was her legal guardian and he would listen to no pleadings.

He could not shrink from a duty so demanding—wringing his very heart with its pleadings!

How faint were the pleadings of duty against such arguments!

Her cries and pleadings were being smothered down on his breast.

Her hand must be taught to heed the pleadings of her pitying heart.

Never in my life have I listened to the pleadings of an opponent with deeper anxiety.

Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings of divine love.

But always there was the same answer to her pleadings to go home.

He put aside her struggles, her pleadings, as if they were thistle-down.