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noun 
  1. a document filed in a lawsuit
verb 
  1. past participle of plead
adjective 
  1. Of or pertaining to that which pleads.
    • 1955, w:í�mile Zola, í�mile Zola, Ann Lindsay, Earth, p. 251:
    • : 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 eyes " the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
    • 1999, w:Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins, p. 599:
    • : With a look, she raised her eyes to him.
    • 1993, w:Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Psalms, p. 225:
    • : Have but a heart and God will have a plenteous hand.

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