See pleading in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "artful pleading"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "shotgun pleading"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "special pleading"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plead",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pleadings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "pleading (countable and uncountable, plural pleadings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy:",
"text": "But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of making a plea."
],
"id": "en-pleading-en-noun-sHGlChP2",
"links": [
[
"plea",
"plea"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Law",
"orig": "en:Law",
"parents": [
"Justice",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "36 9 53 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 16 44 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ing",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 10 49 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 6 54 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 5 55 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "30 15 46 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "28 14 49 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Georgian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "30 15 46 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation."
],
"id": "en-pleading-en-noun-wCmS0Hdt",
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"litigation",
"litigation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"law"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "12 88",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zaštita",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "защита"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpliːdɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːdɪŋ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleading.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "pleading"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plead",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "pleading",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "plead"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of plead"
],
"id": "en-pleading-en-verb-huJjSWcG",
"links": [
[
"plead",
"plead#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpliːdɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːdɪŋ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleading.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "pleading"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plead",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more pleading",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most pleading",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "pleading (comparative more pleading, superlative most pleading)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"derived": [
{
"word": "pleadingly"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1955, Émile Zola, Ann Lindsay, Earth, page 251:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins, page 599:",
"text": "With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Psalms, page 225:",
"text": "Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:",
"text": "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That pleads."
],
"id": "en-pleading-en-adj-MNMZdxwt",
"links": [
[
"plead",
"plead"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "umolitelen",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "умолителен"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mavedrebeli",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "მავედრებელი"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "impíoch"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpliːdɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːdɪŋ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleading.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "pleading"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːdɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/iːdɪŋ/2 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Translation table header lacks gloss"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "artful pleading"
},
{
"word": "shotgun pleading"
},
{
"word": "special pleading"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plead",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pleadings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "pleading (countable and uncountable, plural pleadings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy:",
"text": "But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of making a plea."
],
"links": [
[
"plea",
"plea"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Law"
],
"glosses": [
"A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"litigation",
"litigation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpliːdɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːdɪŋ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleading.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zaštita",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "защита"
}
],
"word": "pleading"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːdɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/iːdɪŋ/2 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Translation table header lacks gloss"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plead",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "pleading",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "plead"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of plead"
],
"links": [
[
"plead",
"plead#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpliːdɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːdɪŋ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleading.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "pleading"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːdɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/iːdɪŋ/2 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Translation table header lacks gloss"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "pleadingly"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plead",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, plead + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more pleading",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most pleading",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "pleading (comparative more pleading, superlative most pleading)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1955, Émile Zola, Ann Lindsay, Earth, page 251:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins, page 599:",
"text": "With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Psalms, page 225:",
"text": "Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:",
"text": "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That pleads."
],
"links": [
[
"plead",
"plead"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpliːdɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːdɪŋ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleading.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pleading.wav.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "umolitelen",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "умолителен"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mavedrebeli",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "მავედრებელი"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "impíoch"
}
],
"word": "pleading"
}
Download raw JSONL data for pleading meaning in English (7.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). 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.