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Entreat :: Entreat (v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.

Repetitioner :: Repetitioner (n.) One who repeats.

Petitionary :: Petitionary (a.) Supplicatory; making a petition.

Ejaculatory :: Ejaculatory (a.) Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition..

Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..

Referendary :: Referendary (n.) An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.

Petitioning :: Petitioning (n.) The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.

Strain :: Strain (a.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation..

Asking :: Asking (n.) The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.

Replication :: Replication (n.) A repetition; a copy.

Rival :: Rival (v. t.) To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love..

Epiphora :: Epiphora (n.) The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas..

Winning :: Winning (n.) The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition..

Prayer :: Prayer (v. i.) The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers..

Rondeau :: Rondeau (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule..

Competitive :: Competitive (a.) Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination..

Entreat :: Entreat (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune..

Desire :: Desire (v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.

Orator :: Orator (n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner..

Refuse :: Refuse (v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor..

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