Definition of PETITION

petition

Meanings

Plural: petitions

Noun

  • a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
  • reverent petition to a deity
  • A formal written request made by an individual or a group of people to a sovereign or political authority, often containing many signatures, soliciting some grace, right, mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance.
  • A formal written application made to a magistrate or court for an order or a suit for divorce.
  • A prayer or supplication, especially of which is formal or humble and made to a deity, a sovereign, or an authority.

Verb

  • write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
  • To make a petition to (a sovereign or political authority).

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French peticiun, from stem of Latin petitio, petitionem (“a request, solicitation”), from petere (“to require, seek, go forward”).

Scrabble Score: 10

petition is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
petition is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
petition is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

petition is a valid Words With Friends word