Synonyms: pleading
Definition: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
Similar words: statement
Definition: a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
Usage: according to his statement he was in London on that day
Synonyms: pleading, beseeching, imploring
Definition: begging
Similar words: adjuratory
Definition: earnestly or solemnly entreating
Usage: in adjuratory terms
Similar words: importunate
Definition: expressing earnest entreaty
Usage: an importunate job applicant
Similar words: mendicant
Definition: practicing beggary
Usage: mendicant friars
Similar words: petitionary
Definition: of the nature of or expressing a petition
Usage: the petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness
Similar words: precative, precatory
Definition: expressing entreaty or supplication
Usage: precatory overtures
Similar words: suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory
Definition: humbly entreating
Usage: a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness