plea
UK /pliː/ US /pliː/
noun 5verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
Even if only one person answers my plea for someone to correspond with it will be a blessing.
a plea for mercy
2
An excuse; an apology.
Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
No Plea must serve; ’tis cruelty to spare.
3
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
4
That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
5
An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
verb
1
To plead; to argue.
With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.
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