pleadable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of pleadable
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English word from Anglo-French word pledable. See plead, -able
Example Sentences
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Meat! perhaps your right to that may be pleadable; but other rights have to be pleaded first.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John
The Act of Settlement prescribed that "no pardon shall be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in parliament."
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
The same defence which he might have conclusively urged if soldiers, descending from the original San Thome, had blocked his transit, is justly pleadable for his men's voyage on the Orinoko past the new town.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)
No intent can make a defamatory publication good, nothing can make it have a good tendency; truth is not pleadable.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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