nnoun.communication(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceedingTopic:jurisprudencelaw
Derivationally Related Form:plead
Hypernyms:statement
Inherited Hypernyms:pleadingstatementmessagecommunicationabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:affirmative pleadingalternative pleadinganswerchargecomplaintdefective pleadingdemurrerpleading in the alternativerebuttalrebutterrejoinderreplicationspecial pleadingsurrebuttalsurrebuttersurrejoinder
Part Meronyms:bill of Particulars
Full Hyponyms:accusationaffirmative pleadingallegationalternative pleadinganswerblame gamechargecomplaintcounterpleadefective pleadingdemurrerdilatory pleaevasive answerfinger-pointinggrievanceimplicationimprecationimputationincriminationindictmentinformationinsanity pleainsinuationlibellodgmentnolo contendereplaintpleaprefermentrebutterrecriminationrejoinderreplicationself-accusationself-incriminationspecial pleadingsurrebuttersurrejoinderunspoken accusation
vverb.communicationappeal or request earnestlyExamples:- I pleaded with him to stop
Hypernyms:appeal invoke
Inherited Hypernyms:pleadappealrequestcommunicateconveytransfermove
Direct Hyponyms:adjurebegbeseechbidconjureentreatimplorepraypress
Full Troponyms:begbesiegebidcraveimportunesupplicate
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s PP | They --- to move (apply to: plead)
vverb.communicationoffer as an excuse or pleaExamples:- She was pleading insanity
Hypernyms:apologise apologize excuse rationalise rationalize
Inherited Hypernyms:pleadapologizedefendarguepresentstateexpress
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s that CLAUSE | Somebody ---s Adjective
vverb.communicationenter a plea, as in courts of lawTopic:jurisprudencelaw
Derivationally Related Form:pleading
Hypernyms:declare
Inherited Hypernyms:pleaddeclarestateexpress
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s Adjective
vverb.communicationmake 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 factsTopic:jurisprudencelaw
Derivationally Related Form:pleadingpleader
Hypernyms:allege aver say
Inherited Hypernyms:pleadallegeassertinsist
Direct Hyponyms:demur
Full Troponyms:demur
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s that CLAUSE
adjadj.allbeggingSynset:beseeching imploring
Antonyms:imperative
Inherited Hypernyms:beseeching
Similar to:adjuratory importunate mendicant petitionary precative precatory suppliant supplicant supplicatory