noun
A plea
Action to carry a case to a higher court
Attractiveness
verb
To ask another seriously
To carry a case to a higher court
To attract
appeal implies an earnest, sometimes urgent request and in legal usage connotes resort to a higher court or authority; plead, applied to formal statements in court answering to allegations or charges, carries into general usage the implication of entreaty by argument she pleaded for tolerance; sue implies respectful or formal solicitation for redress, a favor, etc.; petition implies a formal request, usually in writing and in accordance with established rights; pray and supplicate suggest humility in entreaty and imply that the request is addressed to God or to a superior authority, supplicate in addition suggesting a kneeling or other abjectly prayerful attitude
See appeal in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
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