Petitioning
noun, verb
noun, verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
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."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of petition form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Emrich worries that mounting bee colony losses mean he can't wait that long, so he and his fellow beekeepers are petitioning county and state governments, calling for local rules to restrict home and garden use of common bug killers, rose and flower treatments, and grub controls."
More for "petitioning"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.