Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: plea
IPA transcription: [pl'i]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: plea
    Meaning: an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed
  • Synonyms: plea
    Meaning: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)
  • Synonyms: supplication, plea
    Meaning: a humble request for help from someone in authority
Usage examples
  • A Plea
  • Half an hour later he dropped out again on the same plea.
  • As for the rest, the jury will please acknowledge a plea of guilty from
  • Yet did not this plea move the people, but inflamed them the more to hang about him.
  • "He does want them very badly--for decency's sake," said the poor wife, thus winding up her plea.
  • He rose in the midst of the Colonel's talk and excused himself on the plea of a previous engagement.
  • Her plea that he might once more be assigned to old-time duties found the colonel regretfully obdurate.
  • Woman, bent upon her freedom and seeking to make a better world, will not permit the indecent and unclean forces of reaction to mask themselves forever behind the plea that it is necessary to keep her in ignorance to preserve her purity.
  • But being shy and retiring persons, with no natural inclination for their part, they lived as much as possible in the sylvan solitude of Skuytercliff, and when they came to town, declined all invitations on the plea of Mrs. van der Luyden's health.
  • She was going to decline it on the plea that the path was too narrow for three, but something in his look made her change her mind and accept; and they moved on, while Elsie, almost ready to cry with vexation, fell behind with Edward Allison for an escort.