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pleading

noun
/ˈpliːdɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, plead + -ing.

Definitions

  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. A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or…

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

  3. present participle and gerund of plead

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. That pleads.

      • With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.
      • Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pleading. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at pleading. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at pleading

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA