pleadingness

noun

pleadingness

noun

Etymology From pleading + -ness.

1

The quality of being pleading.

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, […]1817, Anna Maria Porter, Don Sebastian, page 266:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.