What is "solicitations"

Usage examples of "solicitations".

If this person--I wish to speak of her with respect, for your sake--well, if she loves you at all--if, I say, she loves you one atom, she will repeat my solicitations for you to stay and patiently wait here till he consents to see you.

My companion--to whose solicitations I had yielded in descending into the valley--now that the step was taken, began to manifest a degree of caution I had little expected from him.

Not a day passed but I was persecuted by the solicitations of some of the natives to subject myself to the odious operation of tattooing.

To all his repeated assertions, that my companion had not been seen, I pretended to turn a deaf ear, while I urged my solicitations with an eloquence of gesture which the one-eyed chief appeared unable to resist.