What does petitioner mean?
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pe·ti·tion·er
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Princeton's WordNet
petitioner, suppliant, supplicant, requesternoun
one praying humbly for something
"a suppliant for her favors"
suer, petitionernoun
someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right
Wiktionary
petitionernoun
Someone who presents a petition to a court.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Petitionernoun
One who offers a petition.
Etymology: from petition.
When you have received the petitions, and it will please the petitioners well to deliver them into your own hand, let your secretary first read them, and draw lines under the material parts. Francis Bacon.
What pleasure can it be to be encumbered with dependences, thronged and surrounded with petitioners? South.
Their prayers are to the reproach of the petitioners, and to the confusion of vain desires. Roger L'Estrange.
His woes broke out, and begg’d relief
With tears, the dumb petitioners of grief. Dryden.The Roman matrons presented a petition to the fathers; this raised so much raillery upon the petitioners, that the ladies never after offered to direct the lawgivers of their country. Addison.
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petitioner
A petitioner is a person who presents a formal written request to a court, authority, or an organization, appealing for a particular cause or action. This can often be in the form of a legal document, seeking some form of legal relief or other action. The term can also refer to someone who signs a petition.
Webster Dictionary
Petitionernoun
one who presents a petition
Wikidata
Petitioner
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a petitioner is the soul of a deceased mortal.
Anagrams for petitioner »
repetition
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of petitioner in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of petitioner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of petitioner in a Sentence
I'm asking much more directly: Will the government make the petitioner available to testify on this subject?
The Philippine regional court:
There is extreme urgency to issue a temporary restraining order to the petitioner to prevent grave and irreparable injury and damages because their claim that they suffer less or low incomes and earnings is found to be persuasive.
Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
The petitioner fears for his safety.
I think the court is attentive to business, it is striking that the industry that is the one to be regulated is not the petitioner.
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