- Earnest request
- Earnest request or petition
- Plea
- Treatment; reception; entertainment.
- The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer;
earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
- A defence
- A defence in court
- Ad lib, I must get Dee out to provide defence
- An excuse
- An excuse, informally
- As a Liberal Party member I have a witness to my innocence
- Back-up story