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Petitionary   Listen
adjective
Petitionary  adj.  
1.
Supplicatory; making a petition. "Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen."
2.
Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle.





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"Petitionary" Quotes from Famous Books



... me in speech uncivil. He was huge as the hyperborean bear, and cruel looking, and with a sort of apologetic petitionary growl I sidled off; but it was anything but comfortable, and I should not have been surprised had I found myself being led off to the yamen. After a nerve-trying half-hour, I was thankful to see the form of my men appearing ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle


Words linked to "Petitionary" :   pleading, beseeching, petition, imploring


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