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How to pronounce “petition”
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Pronunciation guide for petition
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of petition with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Your Creative Superpowers Can Help Protect Democracy
created a petition and organized efforts
- Definition summary
- 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. [from early 15th c.]
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How to pronounce petition
Your Creative Superpowers Can Help Protect Democracy

created a petition and organized efforts
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “petition”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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. [from early 15th c.]
- (law, by extension) A formal written application made to a magistrate or court for an order or a suit for divorce. [from 1730s]
- A prayer or supplication, especially of which is formal or humble and made to a deity, a sovereign, or an authority. [from c. 1330]
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To make a petition to (a sovereign or political authority).
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