Plead
Meaning of Plead
To make an emotional request; to state a case in court.
ما معنى كلمة Plead بالعربي؟
يُدافع أو يُناشد
🙏⚖️ يُدافع أو يُناشد بقوة؛ يطلب بإلحاح أمام المحكمة أو السلطة؛ يُبرر موقفه بالحجج والأدلة للحصول على حكم عادل ⚖️💬
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Plead in a sentence
Participants plead for more time, and the protocol allows extensions.
Managers plead for budget at the board.
A defendant may plead guilty or not guilty.
Pupils plead for a longer break.
Origin of Plead
From Old French plaidier, from plait.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, plead is the verb for plea. Past forms are pleaded or pled.
Plead audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "plead" — verb, pronounced /pliːd/, with the stress on "plead", the single syllable.
Narrator: To plead is to ask for something with deep and urgent feeling, or to state a formal answer to a charge in a court of law.
Narrator: In plain English, when you plead, you beg earnestly for something, or you tell a court whether you are guilty or not.
Narrator: It comes from Old French plaidier, meaning to argue a case, which grew from the Latin placitum, a decision or a plea.
Narrator: A common collocation is "plead guilty", which describes a defendant formally admitting the charge brought against them.
Narrator: It differs from beg, because begging suggests humble desperation in everyday life, while pleading carries both emotional urgency and a strong legal flavour.
Narrator: Figuratively, we also "plead ignorance" or "plead a headache", meaning we offer something as an excuse or justification.
Narrator: Law, journalism, diplomacy, charity campaigning and drama all rely on this word every single day.
Narrator: So remember: to plead is to ask with all your heart, or to answer formally before a court.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Why does one small word cover both weeping and courtrooms?
Speaker B: Because PLEAD travelled from the Old French plaidier, to argue a case, so the courtroom sense came first and the emotional begging grew out of it.
Speaker A: So the legal meaning is the older one?
Speaker B: Exactly right, and that formal ancestry is why pleading still sounds so weighty, even in ordinary conversation.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She pleaded with her brother to stay another night" — an urgent personal appeal. "He pleaded not guilty to all four charges" — a formal answer in court. "The charity pleaded for donations after the floods" — a public call for help.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: In British English the past tense is pleaded, not pled, and remember you plead with a person but plead for a thing.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Beg is the emotional cousin, implore is the near twin, and petition is the formal alternative, though plead keeps its courtroom charm!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "plead" in AI prompts — useful for legal document tools and for customer support tone analysis.
Speaker A: How would it apply to a legal document tool?
Speaker B: Ask the model to extract the formal answer from case records.
Prompt: Scan these court transcripts and list each defendant with whether they pleaded guilty or not guilty and on which date.
Speaker A: And for support tickets?
Speaker B: Use it to flag emotional urgency in incoming messages.
Prompt: Classify each support ticket by urgency and mark any message in which the customer is pleading for an immediate refund or escalation.
Speaker A: Could it help with writing tools?
Speaker B: Yes, it sharpens persuasive copy for campaigns.
Prompt: Rewrite this fundraising email so the closing paragraph pleads for support without sounding manipulative, keeping it under eighty words.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Let's build a grammar check for the tricky past tense.
Prompt: Review this document and correct every misuse of plead, including wrong past tense forms and missing prepositions, then explain each change in one line.
Frequently asked questions about Plead
What does Plead mean?
To make an emotional request; to state a case in court.
ما معنى كلمة Plead بالعربي؟
يُدافع أو يُناشد — 🙏⚖️ يُدافع أو يُناشد بقوة؛ يطلب بإلحاح أمام المحكمة أو السلطة؛ يُبرر موقفه بالحجج والأدلة للحصول على حكم عادل ⚖️💬
How do you pronounce Plead?
Plead is pronounced /pliːd/ and is used as a verb.
How is Plead used in a sentence?
Participants plead for more time, and the protocol allows extensions.
What are synonyms of Plead?
beg, implore, appeal, entreat, argue, petition.