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
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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

  • 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.

  • The alterations in the law have been in the direction of greater strictness in regard to the conduct of elections, and increased control in the public interest over the proceedings on election 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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