petition
petition is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- transitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To make a petition or solicitation.
- noun. a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- noun. reverent petition to a deity
- verb. write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
Synonyms
postulation, request, orison, prayer
Common word forms
petitions, petitional, petitioned, petitioner, petitioning, petitionable
Words from these letters
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