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Competitory :: Competitory (a.) Acting in competition; competing; rival.

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

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

Custom :: Custom (n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

Applicant :: Applicant (n.) One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.

Tautophony :: Tautophony (n.) Repetition of the same sound.

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

Suitor :: Suitor (n.) One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant..

Infinite :: Infinite (a.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated..

Petition :: Petition (n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer..

Boon :: Boon (n.) A prayer or petition.

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

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..

Prefer :: Prefer (v. t.) To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc..

Encore :: Encore (n.) A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous..

Anaphora :: Anaphora (n.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

Reiterative :: Reiterative (n.) A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally..

Rondel :: Rondel (n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth..

Anadiplosis :: Anadiplosis (n.) A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent..

Beg :: Beg (v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor..

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