pleadingness en · NOUN
Etymology
From pleading + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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: