petitioning

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of petition

noun

  1. The act of making a petition or appeal.
    They would have turned her forth, I think, but for my own poor petitionings, unceasing in her behalf. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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