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Solicitation

//səˌlɪsɪˈteɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal countable, uncountable

    ""The instances you have quoted," replied the other, "are certainly very encouraging! Homer past a life in blindness and beggary; Columbus, in vain solicitation and feverish disappointment; and Luther's was spent in struggle, imprisonment, and danger..."

  2. 2
    the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) wordnet
  3. 3
    an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime US, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    request for a sum of money wordnet
  5. 5
    an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French sollicitation, from Latin sollicitātiō.

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