Petitions Synonyms

A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. prayers
  2. appeals
  3. requests
  4. entreaties
  5. supplications
  6. postulations
  7. complaints
To bring an appeal or request, for example, to the attention of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sues
  2. requests
  3. solicits
  4. prays
  5. applies
  6. invokes
  7. implores
  8. appeals
  9. entreats
  10. approaches
  11. calls
  12. addresses
  13. beseeches
  14. begs
  15. asks
To make application to a higher authority, as to a court of law
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sues
  2. appeals
  3. requests
To ask for employment, acceptance, or admission
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. applies

Petitions Sentence Examples

  • The tribunate called into existence a purely plebeian assembly, firstly, for the election of plebeian magistrates; secondly, for jurisdiction in cases where these magistrates had been injured; thirdly, for presenting petitions on behalf of the plebs through the consuls to the comitia centuriata.

  • Considerable alterations have been made in recent years in the law of Great Britain and Ireland relating to the procedure at parliamentary and municipal elections, and to election petitions.

  • Having heard causes in the forenoon between eight and eleven, after dinner he sat again to receive petitions.

  • Petitions were sent in setting forth the Belgian grievances, demanding a separate administration for Belgium and a full concession of the liberties guaranteed by the constitution.

  • The first object of the working classes necessarily was the attainment of political power; in 1867 there had been mass demonstrations and petitions to the government for universal suffrage.

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