petition

Plural: petitions

Noun

• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
• reverent petition to a deity
• 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.
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: petitioned, petitioning, petitions

• To make a formal request to an authority or body.
• write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
• To make a petition to (a sovereign or political authority).

Examples

• a petition to aid
• a petition to God for courage and strength
• After a disputed word, he chose to PETITION the Scrabble rulebook for clarification.
• The villagers petitioned the council to demolish the dangerous building.
• We're looking to get 10,000 people to sign the petition to have the bird colony given legal protection.

Synonyms

orison, postulation, prayer, request

Anagrams of petition