- 3. Allege, adduce in proof.
Pleader, n. Assertor, vindicator, defender, advocate.
Plead guilty. Confess guilt, acknowledge the charge, own the soft impeachment, cry peccavi, sing miserere, make a clean breast of it, be down on one’s marrow-bones.
Pleasance, n. Pleasure, gayety, pleasantry, merriment, delight, enjoyment.
Pleasant, a.
- 1. Pleasing, agreeable, delightful, delectable, gratifying, grateful, pleasurable, acceptable, welcome.
- 2. Cheerful, gay, lively, sprightly, vivacious, merry, good-humored, enlivening, sportive.
- 3. Witty, facetious, humorous, jocose, jocular, sportive, amusing.
Pleasantry, n.
- 1. Gayety, merriment, sport, fun, frolic, jollity.
- 2. Facetiousness, jocularity, jocoseness, drollery, good-humor, waggery.
- 3. Lively or witty remark, witticism, joke, sally, sprightly saying, jest, quip, quirk, bon-mot.
- 4. Raillery, wit, lively talk.
- 5. Trick, gambol, frolic, prank.
Please, v. a.
- 1. Gratify, delight, gladden, rejoice, make glad, give joy to, take one’s fancy, tickle one’s fancy, do one’s
heart good.
- 2. Satisfy, content.
- 3. Seem good to, be one’s will.
Please, v. n.
- 1. Give pleasure, gain approbation.
- 2. Like, prefer, choose.