petition
/pəˈtɪʃ.ən/ noun B2- A formal written request made by an individual or a group of people to a sovereign or political authority, often containing many signatures, soliciting some grace, right, mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance. · We're looking to get 10,000 people to sign the petition to have the bird colony given legal protection.
- A formal written application made to a magistrate or court for an order or a suit for divorce.
- A prayer or supplication, especially of which is formal or humble and made to a deity, a sovereign, or an authority. · a petition to aid
Plural petitions
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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.
“Petition the minister.”
“Oh, I know what that is; the minister receives two hundred petitions every day, and does not read three.”
“That is true; but he will read a petition countersigned and presented by me.”
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