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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

... not appear to defend himself, consequently the court indorsed her petition and awarded her ...

— The Masked Bridal • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... understand that He prayed that He might not drink the chalice of His passion and death; or that He might not drink it at the hands of the Jews; what He besought was not indeed fulfilled, because His reason which formed the petition did not desire its fulfilment, but for our instruction, it was His will to make known to us His natural will, and the movement of His sensuality, which ...

— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... else that you have heard, or will hear, laid to my charge. He prepared me, on that fatal night, for his disclosure of my guilt to you. After he had left me, I went out on pretence of walking in the garden where I sometimes walk, but really to follow him and make one last petition that he would not protract the dreadful suspense on which I have been racked by him, you do not know how long, but ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... the late Attorney General of Leichardt's Land, in whose following he had been while sitting in the Legislative Assembly, and whom he had consulted in reference to the Divorce petition. This gentleman informed Colin that proceedings were already begun in the case of McKeith versus McKeith, and that notification of the pending suit had been sent to Lady Bridget at Castle Gaverick, in the province of ...

— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... When these events were reported back to Kentucky mass meetings were held throughout the State in protest against the Michigan action. The State legislature drew up a resolution calling upon Congress to enact a new fugitive slave law.[336] The Senate referred the petition to the Committee on Judiciary and they later reported a new fugitive slave bill which was read twice and then pigeonholed. The same action was repeated at the ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various

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