Petition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PETITION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make a formal request
• present a petition to (an authority) in respect of a particular cause
• make an appeal to (a deity or superior)
• make a formal application to (a court) for a writ, judicial action in a suit, etc.
• To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor.
• To make a petition or solicitation.
• write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
• present a petition to
NOUN:
• a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority in respect of a particular cause
• an appeal or request to a deity or a superior
• an application to a court for a writ, judicial action in a suit, etc.
• formal request, esp one signed by many people and presented to parliament
• A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.
• A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document.
• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
• reverent petition to a deity

Words related to PETITION

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Words that contain PETITION

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How to use PETITION in a sentence

• I wrote that petition that you signed this morning.
• Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received.
• If their petition is to be noticed, Congress ought to wait till counter applications were made, and then they might have the subject more fairly before them.
• A Petition having been presented to the late General Assembly, by Mr.
• A petition is presented to the convention demanding a separation of the supreme powers, as the only means of guarding against tyranny.
• On every petition day, he would offer, in constantly increasing numbers, petitions which came to him from all parts of the country for the abolition of slavery.
• The Medici were restored in 1512, after the battle of Ravenna, by Spanish troops, at the petition of the Cardinal Giovanni.
• Leyds that, as they had made no petition, their case had not been brought before the Government, and the Executive had therefore no official knowledge of their existence.
• In reply to her petition Percy presented one of complaint, which was also sent to the Committee.
• So they sent a petition to Jupiter asking for a king.
• To another petition of a similar character, we find the names of Daniel Cromelin, John Auboyneau, Francis Vincent, Alexander Allaire.
• A warm debate ensued, during which the earl of Abingdon offered a petition from the vice-chancellor of the university, the mayor and magistrates of Oxford, praying to be heard.
• After bishop Atterbury had remained a fortnight in the Tower, sir Constantine Phipps presented a petition to the court at the Old Bailey, in the name of Mrs.
• On the 27th of January Lord John Russell gave notice that he had received a petition from Messrs.
• Doyle and the others who signed the petition, but he did not recall Mr.
• Among others may be mentioned those upon a petition to the Massachusetts Legislature for the removal of Joseph M.
• Toporoff was reading the petition and shaking his head.
• Antoine signed a petition to be allowed to pay taxes so as to obtain a vote.
• A letter has come from him written in verse on a big sheet of paper as though it were a petition, all in the same splendid handwriting.
• The present petition, when proposed to them by me, met, as I expected, with their ready and cheerful compliance.
• There was a petition against his return, but the election was confirmed, and he continued to sit for Bristol for six years.
• Speaker, I deeply regret that I did not see this petition yesterday.
• After some time the officer appeared, and told him that the Caliph had read his petition, and had appointed an hour the next morning to give him audience.
• As for land-claims of private persons, many of them became the subjects of litigation and petition, and some were not settled for twenty years.
• In 1836 he presented petition after petition, praying Congress to forbid slavery in the District of Columbia.
• Will was exceedingly desirous of engaging in a great battle, and through some officers with whom he was acquainted preferred a petition to be transferred to this regiment.
• She did not like that reiterated petition, for secrecy was weighing heavily on her heart and soul.
• It must be done by petition, and this, too, of the very next legislature.
• She explained to them her idea of calling a meeting in Rochester for the specific purpose of starting a petition for more extended property rights to women.
• There is pen and ink here and I will write a letter to the Emperor, a petition.

Similar words containing PETI without suffix tion

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