What is "solicits"

Usage examples of "solicits".

It may be permissible, however, to call attention to the singular union of judgment with compassion which characterizes Hawthorne's treatment of his principal personages, and which he also solicits for them from the reader.

He solicits compassion in this romance, as in the little tale of "The Minister With the Black Veil," by perpetually suggesting to the reader that search in his own heart would discover at least the seeds and latent possibilities of kindred tragic guilt.

He solicits judgment on the ground which the most gentle-spirited Transcendentalist may take, and so save himself from dissolution in sympathy, namely, that we should abide firmly by the law we have till the higher law is ready.

Also solicits personally, but the postal department can find no evidence of fraud, nor can we.

He solicits Jury’s time, offers one of the trinkets at a very good price.

My native comes to me as I sit on the veranda of the Howard House smoking a cigar, and solicits the job of taking my things to the cars next morning.