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• plural of pleading.

pleadings

British  

/ ˈpliːdɪŋz /

plural noun

1. Official name: statements of case.  law (formerly) the formal written statements presented alternately by the claimant and defendant in a lawsuit setting out the respective matters relied upon

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Example Sentences

Pleadings up the chain of command for help and relief went ignored.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2019

Pleadings, such as complaints and motions, similar to what Ji’Aire’s father, James “Donnell” Lee, filed in a custody suit, are not evidence.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2015

Twenty-five leading writers have contributed to a campaign book entitled Pleadings for a New Government.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pleadings and petitions by parents and teachers had fallen on deaf ears.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

I shall set down at length the Pleadings of these two imaginary Persons, as they are in the Original with Mr. Dryden's Translation of them.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph