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noun a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
noun reverent petition to a deity
verb write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
originFrom Middle English, borrowed from Old French peticiun, from stem of Latin petitio, petitionem (“a request, solicitation”), from petere (“to require, seek, go forward”).
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