Word Finder - plea

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An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.

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a plea for mercy

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An excuse; an apology.

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That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.

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That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.

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An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.

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The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.

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A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.

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To plead; to argue.

It is a forcible plea for freedom of conscience.

Her tearful plea made him angry that he hadn't been able to protect her as he should have.

The pamphlet closes with a passionate plea for national unity.

To the second charge also a plea of guilty must be entered.

The preface to his Ever Green is a protest against "imported trimming" and "foreign embroidery in our writings," and a plea for a return to simple Scottish tradition.

The woman directed her plea toward the Other and tried to push past Jule.

The judge saw the plea, called the other parties before him and sent for the witnesses.

He made an eloquent plea for peace.

Katie bit back a plea for him not to leave her in such a creepy place.

His attorney would have gone for a plea bargain.

In company, therefore, with the earl of Norfolk he refused to render foreign service in Gascony, on the plea that they were only bound to serve with the king, who was himself bound for Flanders.

He translated the Odyssey, wrote a wellknown manual of idiom, A Plea for the Queen's English (1863), and was the first editor of the Contemporary Review (1866-1870).

Danielson accepted a plea deal and agreed to complete counseling and community service.

Along with this advocacy of internationalism goes a plea for the disendowment of the Church, in order to provide an adequate financial basis for the future Crusade.

At last, on the 17th of November 1860, Miramon, under the plea of necessity, seized $630,000 in specie which had been left under seal at the British Legation and was intended for the bondholders.

The hapless and worthless bridegroom had already incurred the hatred of two powerful enemies, the earls of Morton and Glencairn; but the former of these took part with the queen against the forces raised by Murray, Glencairn and others, under the nominal leadership of Hamilton, duke of Chatelherault, on the double plea of danger to the new religion of the country, and of the illegal proceeding by which Darnley had been proclaimed king of Scots without the needful constitutional assent of the estates of the realm.

No more will this plea be allowed, The Lord did not quicken me to duty.

With only a few more months left in his sentence, Hatch has written a 43-page plea and officially filed for early release.

Not only do the cases, so far as they are known, support Bacon's plea of innocence, but it is remarkable that no attempt at a reversal of any of his numerous decrees appears to have been successful.

Meanwhile, on his way thither to urge his plea in person, Abelard had broken down at the abbey of Cluny, and there, an utterly fallen man, with spirit of the humblest, and only not bereft of his intellectual force, he lingered but a few months before the approach of death.

Hengstenberg's plea that Ezra and Mordecai were also left unmentioned has little force, because Ezra appears in the book bearing his name as nothing more than a prominent priest and scholar, while Daniel is represented as a great prophet.

Owing to ill-health he applied for leave to reside at Wickham, and in 1712 he removed to London on the plea of poverty, intending to pursue a literary career.

On the 27th of April they gave in their plea.

David I., king of Scotland, was the uncle of Matilda, and used her wrongs as the plea for thrice invading northern England, which he ravaged with great cruelty.

But any plea can be raised against an unpopular king.

They ruled out the claimof Robert Bruce, the son of Davids second daughter, who had raised the plea that his descent was superior because he was a generation nearer than Baliol to their common ancestor.

During that period the Curia Regis threw off three offshootsthe courts of exchequer, kings bench and common pleas; and records of their judicial proceedings survive in the Plea Rolls and Year Books, some of which have been edited for the Rolls series, the Selden and other societies.

But the anti-Semitic and antiDreyfusard spirit in certain French circles could not easily be quelled even then; and on the occasion of the translation of the remains of Emile Zola (Dreyfus's determined champion) to the Pantheon on the 4th of June 1908, Major Dreyfus was shot at and wounded by a fanatical journalist named Gregori, who was subsequently acquitted by a Paris jury of the charge of attempted murder, his own plea being that he had merely intended a "demonstration."

The restrictions on Irish commerce provoked Locke's friend William Molyneux (1656-1698) to write his famous plea for legislative independence (1698).

Two companies brought suit for moneys owed for liquor sold to the state dispensary; the commission resisted the suit on the ground that as a court and as a representative of the state it could not be sued; the circuit court and the circuit court of appeals overruled this plea and put the funds into the hands of a receiver; but in April 1909 this famous cause was closed by the decision of the Federal Supreme Court, upholding the commission and restoring to it the fund.

He escaped into France, where his mother, on the plea of his illness, obtained permission from Louis Philippe for him to stay in Paris.

An illustration is, with the general run of mankind, more powerful to convince than an argument; and the cogency of the visible plea for the Copernican theory offered by the miniature system, then first disclosed to view, was recognizable in the triumph of its advocates as well as in the increased acrimony of its opponents.

In some cases the king went so far as to levy taxes in what he acknowledged was an illegal manner and excused under the plea of necessity.

Trial by jury was abolished, on the plea that it had not worked properly.

His plea bargain included granting his choice of the judge who would impose his sentence.

Draconian punishment is probably to be found in their Plea for Mercy.

The toys have additional enchantment and plea due to the colorful colors, whimsical and eye-catching.

Another craft, and brighter, may stem the raging gale, Thy plea of sixty winters, old friend, can never fail.

I cannot suffocate their plea for air with my careless indifference.

So my plea is to stop the journalistic jingo and to start to think and report.

Cain's plea, " Am I my brother's keeper?

It ends with a plea of express malice against the first and second defendants.

Mr Justice Kelly stated that this plea had traditionally never been looked on in a very meritorious light because it was not very meritorious.

None of the defendants were asked to enter a plea at their latest court hearing last Friday.

Law Lords reject asylum plea A Ugandan asylum seeker who has HIV has lost her legal challenge against deportation.

Neasden resident Sadie McEwan made a heartfelt plea to Cllr John.

Released in the paranoid depths of the Cold War the short film was read as an eloquent plea for peace.

The defenders stated a general plea to relevancy, but by an interlocutor pronounced after debate the Sheriff allowed a proof before answer.

Which is probably a hidden plea for greater toleration of each other's oddities.

The Green paper plea for integrity of official statistics indicates a wish by government statisticians to distance themselves from the statistics they produce.