different between pleading vs cleading

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pli?d??/
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Noun

pleading (countable and uncountable, plural pleadings)

1. The act of making a plea.
   • 1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy

     But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.

2. (law) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.

Translations

Derived terms

• special pleading

Verb

pleading

1. present participle of plead

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Adjective

pleading (comparative more pleading, superlative most pleading)

1. That pleads.
   • 1955, Émile 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 pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.

   • 1999, Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins, p. 599:

     With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.

   • 1993, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Psalms, p. 225:

     Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.

Translations

Derived terms

• pleadingly

Anagrams

• pedaling

English

Etymology

From Scots cleding, cleiding, from earlier cleething, claithing, cleithing (“clothing”), from Middle English clething (“clothing”). See cloth, clothing.

Noun

cleading (plural cleadings)

1. A jacket or outer covering to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder, etc. of a steam engine.
2. The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

Anagrams

• decaling