Definizione monolingua

pleading

pleading

1. Present participle of plead.

pleading (plural pleadings)

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

pleading (comparative more pleading, superlative most pleading)

1. Of or pertaining to that which pleads.
   • 1955, Émile Zola, Ann Lindsay, Earth, p. 251:

     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 didnt want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.

   • 1999, Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins, p. 599:

     With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.

   • 1993, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Psalms, p. 225:

     Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.

Definizione dizionario pleading

Altri significati:

present participle of plead

Of or pertaining to that which pleads.

(law) a document filed in a lawsuit