petitioning
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
petitioning
- present participle and gerund of petition
Noun[edit]
petitioning (plural petitionings)
- The act of making a petition or appeal.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
- They would have turned her forth, I think, but for my own poor petitionings, unceasing in her behalf.