different between pleading vs plaidoyer

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

Translations

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

Borrowed from French plaidoyer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ple?dwa?je?/

Noun

plaidoyer (plural plaidoyers)

1. (chiefly law) An act of pleading; a plea.
   • 2010, Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, Arrow 2011, p. 7:

     In this plaidoyer for culture, I will argue that cultural differences are reflected in language in profound ways […]

French

Etymology

Noun use of the Old French verb infinitive plaidoiier, plaidiier. See plaider (“to plead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?.dwa.je/

Noun

plaidoyer m (plural plaidoyers)

1. (law) speech for the defence

   Synonyms: plaiderie, plaidoirie

2. (figuratively) plea

Descendants

• ? English: plaidoyer
• ? German: Plädoyer

Further reading

• “plaidoyer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French plaidoiier, plaidiier.

Noun

plaidoyer m (plural plaidoyers)

1. (Jersey, law) pleading