pleader

noun

Etymology: Partly from Middle English pleder, pledere, equivalent to plead + -er; and partly from Middle English pledour, plaidour, from Anglo-Norman plaidur, pledour, Old French plaidëor, pledëor.

1. a person who pleads in court; an advocate

   ““My District's worked by some man at Darjiling, on the strength of a native pleader's false reports. Oh, it's a heavenly place!””

   “‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’”

2. someone who pleads or implores