OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4317

plea

/pliː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alegato • petición • ruego
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
Even if only one person answers my plea for someone to correspond with it will be a blessing.
a plea for mercy
justificación
An excuse; an apology.
Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
No Plea must serve; ’tis cruelty to spare.
alegato
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
alegato
The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
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