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petitioning
Word definitions for petitioning in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Petitioning (also known as letters and calls , correspondence and reception , xinfang or shangfang ) is the administrative system for hearing complaints and grievances from individuals in the People's Republic of China .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Petition \Pe*ti"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petitioned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Petitioning .] To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of making a petition or appeal. vb. (present participle of petition English)
Usage examples of petitioning.
The mob destroyed every cargo of tea that arrived in the port, and the assembly showed its hostility by petitioning for the removal of the chief-justice, Peter Oliver, Esq.
Henry Hunt and others, met in Spa-fields on the 10th of February, under the pretext of petitioning for parliamentary reform.
The first step of this association was to apply to the Manchester magistrates to convoke a meeting for the alleged purpose of petitioning against the corn bill.
The more to excite the people, whose dispositions were already very seditious, the expedient of petitioning was renewed.
To petition and remonstrate being the most cautious method of conducting a confederacy, an application to parliament was signed by near two hundred officers, in which they made their apology with a very imperious air, asserted their right of petitioning, and complained of that imputation thrown upon them by the former declaration of the lower house.
Brougham, who made his first appearance in the house since Christmas, remarked that however high he held the right of petitioning, and of meeting for the purpose of discussing public affairs, he was decidedly of opinion that such a multitudinous meeting as that referred to, as well as the monster meetings of Ireland, could be viewed in no other light but as demonstrations intended to overawe the parliament and the crown by an exhibition of physical force.
The committee attached the utmost value to the right of petitioning, and to the exercise of that most important privilege by the subjects of this realm, and felt deeply the necessity of preserving the due exercise of such privilege from abuse, and having also a due regard to the importance of a petition so very numerously signed, had made that petition the subject of their present report.