pleading

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.

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

That pleads.

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 didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.

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