petition
/pəˈtɪʃ.ən/ verb C2- To make a petition to (a sovereign or political authority). · The villagers petitioned the council to demolish the dangerous building.
He/she/it petitions · Past petitioned · Past participle petitioned · -ing form petitioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- petition
- He/she/it
- petitions
- Past
- petitioned
- Past participle
- petitioned
- -ing form
- petitioning
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There was in it thankfulness for the past and reverent petition for the future; and when she slept on her white pillow her dreams were as fair and bright and beautiful as maidenhood might desire.
Hurst soon found even his open petition rejected.
Mary petitioned for the use of the library at Netherfield; and Kitty begged very hard for a few balls there every winter.
He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
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