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Meanings of pleader in English

Portuguese
advogado
Catalan
advocat defensor
Spanish
abogado defensor

A lawyer who pleads cases in court.

        advogado
        Usage of pleader in English
        1
        To one such pleader, the President severely, but humorously, responded, in writing:
        The Lincoln Story Book / A Judicious Collection of the Best Stor...
        2
        Apart from his public position he is a pleader before the courts.
        Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
        3
        I need an eloquent pleader, sighed the banker, shaking his head sadly.
        Serge Panine — Volume 01
        4
        A lawyer was clamouring in the tone of a triumphant pleader.
        The Fortune of the Rougons
        5
        We dare not be deaf to the voice of the pleader
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 18, 1890
        6
        Coogan, another famous pleader, entered the lists against Heney in defense of Glass.
        Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
        7
        Tonight the fighter was gone, and the pleader took his place.
        The Kentucky Ranger
        8
        Mex grasped the silken purse, keeping her eyes steadily on the beautiful pleader.
        A Dream of Empire; Or, The House of Blennerhassett
        9
        As a pleader and a determined and artful advocate, he had few equals.
        The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton / A Novel: Founde...
        10
        Babu Nilratan, the husband of Labanya, was a pleader at Buxar.
        The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories
        11
        They will appoint a pleader to gain him his life by false words.
        The Path to Honour
        12
        Gracchus was too good a pleader to be a fair observer.
        A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
        13
        The pleader is thrown back on journalism, on politics, on literature.
        Z. Marcas
        14
        I consider him a fine jurist, an eloquent pleader, and a perfect gentleman.
        That Mainwaring Affair
        15
        Whisky will not make a poet, nor poker a great pleader.
        Remarks
        16
        Whiskey will not make a poet, nor poker a great pleader.
        Comic History of the United States
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