Petitioning is valid Scrabble Word

Is petitioning a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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11 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for PETITIONING in dictionary:

VERB:

PETITION, to make a formal request
make an appeal to (a deity or superior)
make a formal application to (a court) for a writ, judicial action in a suit, etc.
present a petition to (an authority) in respect of a particular cause

NOUN:

an appeal or request to a deity or a superior
an application to a court for a writ, judicial action in a suit, etc.
a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority in respect of a particular cause
The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.

Words related to PETITIONING

petition10 petitioned13 petitionings15 petitions11

Words that contain PETITIONING

petitionings15 counterpetitioning23

How to use PETITIONING in a sentence

On her these tardy compliments failed of their effect, her soul being engrossed with the great care of petitioning heaven in behalf of the deceased.
And how did they do it? By their needles, paint brushes and pens, by speaking the truth, and petitioning Parliament for the abolition of slavery.
The life of every individual is a perfect illustration of the subject of petitioning.
Petitioning is the foundation of all government, and of all administrations of law.
It is perfectly possible to live without petitioning, sueing, or holding stocks.
Meidias also followed close at his side, petitioning that he would hand over the city of Gergithians to himself.
The bishop attempted its destruction by an armed force, but the Protestants defended their property, and sent a committee to Matthias, petitioning for a revocation of the mandate.
He thought ill of servants who could accept their dismissal without petitioning to stay with him.
Still, the exercise of the right of petitioning was always wisely subjected to certain forms.
Then arose a committee of lords and commons, petitioning her to allow them to seek some noble knight or prince to marry her and defend the kingdom.

The more to excite the people, whose dispositions were already very seditious, the expedient of petitioning was renewed.
Titus Oates seized this opportunity of petitioning the house of lords for a reversal of the judgments given against him on his being convicted of perjury.
But all this petitioning, though regular, constitutional, and powerful, did not promise to be effective.
The escaped criminals committed such outrages that the government at the repeated petitioning of the shepherds were obliged to withdraw it.
These fathers and wives were now petitioning that they should not be parted.
Boy now ventured to approach Captain Lake, on the quarter deck, and with an anxious petitioning countenance, asked for the goods, which had been promised him.
On this account the prisoner, after petitioning more than once for a respite, which he received, was executed on Tuesday the 10th, eight days after his trial.
But the First Amendment to the Constitution forbade Congress to make any law to prevent citizens of the United States from petitioning.
Congress could not prevent the antislavery people petitioning.
But it is unfair to attempt to prejudice the public against us, while we are petitioning for our rights.
The course of petitioning and respectful remonstrances was therefore persevered in, but all to no purpose.
When, after a struggle with her timidity, she asked him for it, he seemed surprised and never once spared her the mortification of petitioning for necessities.
They then returned to the work of petitioning Congress for a Sixteenth Amendment to the National Constitution which should prohibit disfranchisement on account of sex.
The archbishop of Manila, I am told, is writing to your Majesty, petitioning you to command that his stipend be increased.
They were always petitioning Captain Abersouth to let the big anchor go, just to hear it plunge in the water, threatening in case of refusal to write to the newspapers.
John and Paul Cuffe, after petitioning for the right to vote in 1780, started in 1815 for Africa, organizing an expedition at their own expense which cost four thousand dollars.

Similar words containing PETITION without suffix ing

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