Plea vs Moan - What's the difference?
plea | moan |
An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
An excuse; an apology.
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
(legal) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
(legal) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
(legal) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
(legal) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
* Prior
(obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To make a moan or similar sound.
To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
(colloquial) To complain; to grumble.
As nouns the difference between plea and moan
is that plea is an appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty while moan is a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.As a verb moan is
to complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.plea
English
Noun
(en noun)- a plea for mercy
- 1667', ''Necessity, the tyrant’s '''plea .'' --, ''Paradise Lost IV.393
- (rfdate) No plea must serve; ‘t is cruelty to spare. -- .
- (rfdate) The Supreme Judicial Court shall have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed. --Laws of Massachusetts.
Usage notes
In 19th century U.K. law, that which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant’s plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant’s formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him/her.External links
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English
Verb
(en verb)- Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
- Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- which infinitely moans me
- ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned .
