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Definition of the day : « petition »
- noun appeal, plea
- verb plead, appeal for
- And in the meantime a trireme was despatched in all haste to carry their petition to Sparta.
- Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
- What do we acknowledge and for what do we pray in this petition?
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- This petition does not imply, therefore, that we are to make God's name holy.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- The praying of this petition presupposes a penitent state of heart.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- If we are not truly penitent, this petition is a mockery on our lips.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- Her son, who could write a very legible hand, wrote the petition.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Her innocence was apparent to the priest, her petition heard in heaven.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- Let me this once be heard with patience, and have my petition granted.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- The votaries of the saint will get up a petition to have his body moved.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- I do not ask you to petition or to do any other act in favor of the Irish.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier