pleader
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Partly from Middle English pleder, pledere, equivalent to plead + -er; and partly from Middle English pledour, plaidour, from Anglo-Norman plaidur, pledour, Old French plaidëor, pledëor.
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[edit]pleader (plural pleaders)
- (law) a person who pleads in court; an advocate [from 13th c.]
- 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:
- “My District's worked by some man at Darjiling, on the strength of a native pleader's false reports. Oh, it's a heavenly place!”
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 25:
- ‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’
- (generally) someone who pleads or implores [from 16th c.]
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