Associations to the word «Petition»
Noun
- Assistance
- Supervisor
- Fief
- Planter
- Territorial
- Theta
- Canterbury
- Diocese
- Status
- Borough
- Indulgence
- Inconvenience
- Regency
- Faa
- Convict
- Authority
- Railroad
- Dowager
- Arlington
- Penn
- Callahan
- Patriarch
- Postmaster
- Israelites
- Widow
- Plight
- Relief
- Presbyterian
- Reversal
- Slave
- Earl
- Appointment
- Edmond
- Convention
- Colored
- Fund
- Pius
- Eligibility
- Sentence
- Admission
- Musa
- Claimant
- Vow
- Salary
- Rancho
- King
- Settle
- Establishment
- Lodge
- Coloni
Adjective
Wiktionary
PETITION, noun. A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
PETITION, noun. A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
PETITION, noun. (legal) A formal written request for judicial action.
PETITION, noun. A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.
PETITION, verb. To make a request, commonly in written form.
PETITION OF RIGHT, noun. (UK) (legal) (historical) A remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown.
Dictionary definition
PETITION, noun. A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority.
PETITION, noun. Reverent petition to a deity.
PETITION, verb. Write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing.
Wise words
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.