Crossword-Solution: PLEA
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| Plea | n. | That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him. |
| Plea | n. | A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common. |
| Plea | n. | That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology. |
| Plea | n. | An urgent prayer or entreaty. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLEA | anagram | AELP, ALEP, ALPE, APEL, APLE, LEAP, PALE, PEAL, PELA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
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greedy person
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Sentences with PLEA (5)
That this was the usual procedure was so well known to Hook that in disregarding it he cannot be excused on the plea of ignorance.
About the new-arriv’d, in multitudes Th’ ethereal People ran, to hear and know How all befell: they towards the Throne Supream Accountable made haste to make appear With righteous plea, thir utmost vigilance, And easily approv’d; when the most High Eternal Father from his secret Cloud, Amidst in Thunder utter’d thus his voice.
AESOP’S FABLES By Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf And The Lamb WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.
The plea thou urgest, needs must give us pause, Set forth in weighty argument, but we Must leave the issue with the ruling powers.
The sun, but little past its meridian, shone down upon the clergyman, and gave a distinctness to his figure, as he stood out from all the earth, to put in his plea of guilty at the bar of Eternal Justice.
Quotes with PLEA (3)
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea. May your name be glorified and be praised.
There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,” or constitutes a judgment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism and a condemnation that vegetarians (or other consumers of animal products) are “bad” people. Yes to the first part; no to the second. There is no coherent distinction between flesh and other animal products. They are all the same and we cannot justify consuming …
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 1,006 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).