pleading
adjective
1. begging
Similar word(s): adjuratory, importunate, mendicant, petitionary, precative, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, beseeching, imploring
noun
1. (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
Definition categories: communication, statement
verb
1. present participle of plead