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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈpliːdɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleading.wav Forms: more pleading [comparative], most pleading [superlative]
Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ Etymology: By surface analysis, plead + -ing. Etymology templates: {{surf|en|plead|-ing}} By surface analysis, plead + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj}} pleading (comparative more pleading, superlative most pleading)
  1. That pleads. Derived forms: pleadingly Translations (Translations): умолителен (umolitelen) (Bulgarian), მავედრებელი (mavedrebeli) (Georgian), impíoch (Irish)
    Sense id: en-pleading-en-adj-MNMZdxwt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Irish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 12 32 4 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 48 19 25 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 55 12 26 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 57 8 29 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 65 6 26 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 52 17 22 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 52 15 24 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 52 17 22 9

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpliːdɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleading.wav Forms: pleadings [plural]
Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ Etymology: By surface analysis, plead + -ing. Etymology templates: {{surf|en|plead|-ing}} By surface analysis, plead + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pleading (countable and uncountable, plural pleadings)
  1. The act of making a plea. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-pleading-en-noun-sHGlChP2
  2. (law) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law Translations (Translations): защита (zaštita) [feminine] (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-pleading-en-noun-wCmS0Hdt Topics: law Disambiguation of 'Translations': 25 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: special pleading, shotgun pleading

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈpliːdɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleading.wav
Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ Etymology: By surface analysis, plead + -ing. Etymology templates: {{surf|en|plead|-ing}} By surface analysis, plead + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} pleading
  1. present participle and gerund of plead Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: plead
    Sense id: en-pleading-en-verb-huJjSWcG

Inflected forms

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  "word": "pleading"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.