pleadingness

pleadingness

English

Etymology

pleading +‎ -ness

Noun

pleadingness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being pleading.
   • 1817, Anna Maria Porter, Don Sebastian (page 266)

     This love, unknown to themselves, even while for ever felt, was not unmarked by the Duchess; and her looks had already interrogated those of Kara Aziek, with a sort of pleadingness for her son's happiness, […]