单词 | plaidoyer |
释义 | plaidoyern. Chiefly Law. A pleading, a plea; spec. †an advocate's speech (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > a pleading or plea > an advocate's speech plaidoyer1649 1649 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) I. 392 Annæus Robertus his pleidoier are cited anent the honesty of parties in contracting of marriage. a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 11 Producing a pladoyes in the Hugonets faveurs. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France ii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 256 The profit of copying musick, or writing plaidoyers by the sheet. 1853 Southern Literary Messenger 19 387/1 He opens his argument or plaidoyer with a dexterous enumeration of the multitudinous follies of ancient and modern times. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lx. 346 It was an eloquent, patriotic, and impassioned plaidoyer. 1950 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 34 28 These facts are in some degree overlooked in most of the plaidoyers for the intensive oral method [of language learning]. a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 139 Harold made a very long and not very persuasive plaidoyer. 1999 Slavic & E. European Jrnl. 43 644 This should not be misunderstood as a call for epigonic writing, but rather as a plaidoyer for intertextual creativity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1649 |
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