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Grammar : Noun
Spell : puh-tish-uhn
Phonetic Transcription : pəˈtɪʃ ən



Définition of petitioner

Origin :
  • early 15c., from petition (n.).
  • noun applicant
Example sentences :
  • Perhaps the reader may wish to see as well as hear the petitioner.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • The petitioner's name was Peter Quilliam; the respondent——, the co respondent——.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • Which humbly hope your lordships will please to allow your petitioner, who, etc.
  • Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
  • The prayer was granted—according to the intent of the petitioner.
  • Extract from : « The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Henry Martyn Baird
  • And I said: Hast thou put off the petitioner as I desired, to another day?
  • Extract from : « The Substance of a Dream » by F. W. Bain
  • The door closes and the petitioner may say to the Emperor what he likes.
  • Extract from : « Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 » by Various
  • When didst thou rebuke any petitioner with the name of importunate?
  • Extract from : « Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions » by John Donne
  • Have freed you from one suitor for this dear hand, to become myself your petitioner!
  • Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He thanked the petitioner and the entire church for their solicitude.
  • Extract from : « Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly » by David Bryant Fulton
  • He could not have refused even a more difficult task to this petitioner.
  • Extract from : « Barbara Blomberg, Complete » by Georg Ebers

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