Pleading
WordNet
adjective
(1) Expressing earnest entreaty
"The appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"
"She holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"
"A pleading note in her voice"
noun
(2) (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- 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 didn't 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.
- 1955, Émile Zola, Ann Lindsay, Earth, p. 251: