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Impetrate vs Pleading - What's the difference?

impetrate | pleading |

As verbs the difference between impetrate and pleading

is that impetrate is to obtain (something) by asking for it; to procure upon request while pleading is .

As adjectives the difference between impetrate and pleading

is that impetrate is (obsolete) obtained by entreaty while pleading is that pleads.

As a noun pleading is

the act of making a plea.

impetrate

English

Verb

(impetrat)
  • To obtain (something) by asking for it; to procure upon request.
  • * 1798 , Herman Witsius, The Oeconomy of the Covenants , vol. III:
    • But he that would illustrate this, should distinguish between this salvation, already impetrated' or obtained, and salvation about to be ' impetrated ; or between salvation, and the promise of salvation [...].
  • * 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , IX:
  • *:‘A slight testimonial, sir, which I thought fit to impetrate from that worthy nobleman’ (here he raised his hand to his head, as if to touch his hat), ‘MacCallum More.’
  • * 1853 , Andrew Kim, The Catholic Missionary , vol. III:
    • On the cross He redeemed us with His Blood; on the altar He intercedes or impetrates that we may individually have part in that redemption.
  • * 2004 , Patrick Zutshi, ‘Letters of Pope Honorius III’, in Pope, Church and City :
    • It is striking that the majority of these documents were issued when Dominic was present in the curia, and it is reasonable to suppose that he took a personal interest in impetrating them.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (obsolete) obtained by entreaty
    • ----

    pleading

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a plea.
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
    • But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
  • (legal) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pleads.
  • * 1955 , , Ann Lindsay, Earth , p. 251:
    • Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
  • * 1999 , (Simone de Beauvoir), The Mandarins , p. 599:
    • With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.
  • * 1993 , (Charles Haddon Spurgeon), Psalms , p. 225:
    • Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

    Derived terms

    * pleadingly

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