plea

Nouns

  • (n) a humble request for help from someone in authority supplication,
  • (n) (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)
  • (n) an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed

Synonyms

supplication

Words of close approximity

pleb
PLF PLO ply
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