pleader

plural pleaders

1. lawa person who pleads in court; an advocateFirst known use 13th c.

   That is the first duty of the juryman, just as it is the pleader's duty to speak the truth.

   1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20

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   “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!”

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30

   ‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’

   1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 25

2. generallysomeone who pleads or imploresFirst known use 16th c.