verb

definition

To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.

example

The defendant has decided to plead not guilty.

definition

To beg, beseech, or implore.

example

He pleaded with me not to leave the house.

definition

To offer by way of excuse.

example

Not wishing to attend the banquet, I pleaded illness.

definition

To discuss by arguments.

Examples of pleaded in a Sentence

For a long time his mother pleaded with him.

She seemed distressed and softly pleaded, "Please?"

Please get it for me and put it under for a moment, he pleaded in a piteous voice.

Call it a favor? she pleaded.

He pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

Jackson pleaded, It's Elisabeth.

His daughter, who pleaded with him on tape to stop drinking, recorded the video.

In 1884 he pleaded eloquently in the House of Magnates for the establishment of civil marriage, and in 1888 was Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Koloman Tisza.

The Aravalli mountaineers strongly objected to this change, and pleaded a long period of loyal usefulness to the state.

He supported Cobden's motion for the reduction of public expenditure, and in and out of parliament pleaded for peace.

He worked actively against the sweating system, pleaded for European intervention in Macedonia, and was a keen supporter of the Licensing Bill of 1908.

He pleaded inability, but the stranger insisted, and he was compelled to obey.

The family pleaded with her to return to the civilization of Boston, but she wouldn't listen.

He repudiated the doctrine of secession, and pleaded for compromise and conciliation.

When the Polish insurrection of 1863 broke out, and he pleaded the insurgents' cause, his reputation in Russia received its death-blow.

At the pope's instigation he recommenced persecution some years later, but his duchess and some German princes pleaded successfully in favour of the Protestants.

Arabi pleaded guilty, was sentenced to death, the sentence being commuted by the khedive to banishment; and Riaz resigned in disgust.

If your child has pleaded to attend a regular school, they may act out in rebellion.

Paris Hilton pleaded no contest on January 22, 2007 in response to her DUI arrest from last year.

Hilton was charged with two DUI charges, but pleaded not guilty and her charges were reduced.

Nicole Richie pleaded not guilty to a December 2006 misdemeanor DUI.

Sierra pleaded not guilty to the charges on December 6, however, must stay in jail until her hearing on December 20, 2007.

Gayheart settled a civil suit with the boys' family out of court and received three years' probation, community service, a license suspension and a small fine when she pleaded no contest to charges of vehicular manslaughter.

This woman resided as an architect in harrowing communist Romania until she pleaded for her husband to escape to the United States.

Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly pleaded before the council of Constance in 1415 for the reform of "that most scandalous custom, or rather abuse, whereby many [clergy] fear not to keep concubines in public."

Long after the Act of Toleration (1689) was in full forcein England, the Boston Baptists pleaded in vain for the privileges to which they were thereby entitled, and it required the most earnest efforts of English Baptists and other dissenters to gain for them a recognition of the right to exist.

In January 1813 the inhabitants, fearing destruction from the British and their Indian allies, pleaded to the Americans for protection, and about 660 men from the army of General James Winchester (1752-1826), sent from the rapids of the Maumee river, on the 18th of January drove a small British force from the village.

He pleaded for the despised Dutch Anabaptists, and remonstrated with John Knox on the rancour of his First Blast of the Trumpet.

On his return to Avignon he engaged in public affairs, pleaded the cause of the Scaligers in their lawsuit with the Rossi for the lordship of Parma, and addressed two poetical epistles to Pope Benedict XII.

The cause which Bunyan had defended with rude logic and rhetoric against Kiffin and Danvers has since been pleaded by Robert Hall with an ingenuity and eloquence such as no polemical writer has ever surpassed.

In 1907, the year of the Imperial Conference, he pleaded strongly for Colonial Preference, a policy against which, in spite of the support which it obtained from Dominion Ministers, Sir Henry Campbell * Bannerman's Government set its face.

The barons expressed their wish for a peace with France, and when summoned to produce their feudal contingents pleaded poverty, and raised a rather shallow theory to the effect that their services could not be asked for wars beyond seasagainst which there were conclusive precedents in the reigns of Henry I.

The French theFrench lawyers ruled that heiresses could not succeed to the crown, crown themselves, but Edward pleaded that they could nevertheless transmit their right to their sons.

If he pleaded that in 1328 he had been the mere tool of his mother and Mortimer, he could be reminded of the unfortunate fact that in 1331, after he had crushed Mortimer, and taken the power into his own hands, he had deliberately renewed his oath to King Philip.

Free thought and liberty of conscience had indeed been pleaded for, on various grounds, in the century in which he lived.

He pleaded his age, now close upon seventy years, his infirm health, and the obstacles to travel caused by quarantine regulations; but the pope was sternly indignant at what he held to be his ingratitude and insubordination, and no excuse was admitted.

The young anti most impatient adherents of Carlism vainly pleaded that such an opportunity would not soon be found again, and threatened to take the law into their own hands and unfurl the flag of Dios, Patria, y Rey in northern and central Spain.

Some of Trotsky's supporters pleaded with him to organize a military coup.

Ms Botting initially pleaded not guilty to 1871 Dogs Act charges by police.

It was before him and his sister Berenice (B.2) that St Paul pleaded his cause at Caesarea (Acts xxvi.).

Many of the banks involved in this situation have pleaded mea culpa.

Applicants must disclose whether they have ever been convicted of or pleaded guilty or no contest to a misdemeanor or a felony offense for which they have not received a pardon.

Roppo pleaded not guilty to all charges and Bieber apologized to his fans for the mess at the event via his Twitter page.

Addresses were presented to him at Southampton, Birmingham and other towns; he was officially entertained by the lord mayor of London; at each place he pleaded the cause of his unhappy country.

So the Jews of Judaea obtained the settlement for which they had pleaded at the death of Herod; and some of them beg2 n to regret it at once.

The most earnest and unremitting exertions were made by the persons so associated in investigating facts and collecting evidence, in forming branch committees and procuring petitions, information and support of those who pleaded the cause in parliament.

Early in the 18th century Rollin pleaded for the " utility of Greek," while he described that language as the heritage of the university of Paris.

Stern measures of suppression were directed not only against them but against " Goddis Lawe," the book for which they pleaded with such passionate earnestness.

The spirit with which he pleaded before the Star Chamber in a case of The Crown v.

In his pamphlet on "Insular Free Trade" the prime minister reviewed the economic history since Cobden's time, pointed to the falsification of the promises of the early free-traders, and to the fact that England was still the only free-importing country, and insisted that he was "in harmony with the true spirit of free-trade" when he pleaded for "freedom to negotiate that freedom of exchange may be increased."

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