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• pleading

) (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding ;

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• plead

) appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop" ;

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• plead ,

) offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity" ;

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• plead ,

) enter a plea, as in courts of law; "She pleaded not guilty" ;

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• plead ,

) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts ;

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• beseeching ,
• pleading ,
• imploring

) begging ;