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Petition

noun

A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority. Synonyms: postulation, request.

Reverent petition to a deity. Synonyms: orison, prayer.

verb

(past & past part. petitioned; pres. part. petitioning)

Write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing.

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"Petition" Quotes from Famous Books

... that was good never to cross the path of the Ferns, or Roseleaf, or any of their friends again. When his treaties brought no verbal response he grew louder in his tone, feeling that something must be done to move the deaf ears to which he addressed his petition. ...

— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter

... the Greater Phrygia as this country south of Bithynia and west of Galatia was called,[546] there were two claimants.[547] The kings of Pontus and Bithynia competed for the prize, and each supported his petition by a reference to the history of the past. Nicomedes of Bithynia could urge that his grandsire Prusias had maintained an attitude of friendly neutrality during Rome's struggle with Antiochus. The Pontic king, Mithradates Euergetes, advanced ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge

... the first opportunity taken to intercede in his favour. But, so far from succeeding, it served only to irritate the emperor the more, who forbade all persons, even the empress, to speak for the prisoner, and, above all, to present any petition on the subject, under the pain of ...

— Heads and Tales • Various

... brought to him a petition signed by 800 clergymen, praying that they be not compelled to wear the surplice, nor make the sign of the cross at baptism—he said they were "vipers," and if they did not submit to the authority of ...

— The Evolution of an Empire • Mary Parmele

... of ill-luck. You had not yet returned, and she was writing her petition to ask leave to go to France or to send you there, when I heard the gallop of a horse. It was a courier from the governor general of Siberia. He brought us orders to change our residence; within three ...

— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

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