PETITIONとは意味・読み方・使い方

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語源

From 中期英語, borrowed from Old French peticiun, from stem of Latin petitio, petitionem (“a request, solicitation”), from petere (“to require, seek, go forward”).

発音

IPA: /pəˈtɪʃ.ən/

名詞

petition (plural petitions)

A formal written request made by an individual or a group of people to a sovereign or political authority, often containing many signatures, soliciting some grace, right, mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance. [from early 15th c.]

Synonym: (formal) suit

We're looking to get 10,000 people to sign the petition to have the bird colony given legal protection.
(law, by extension) A formal written application made to a magistrate or court for an order or a suit for divorce. [from 1730s]
A prayer or supplication, especially of which is formal or humble and made to a deity, a sovereign, or an authority. [from c. 1330]

a petition to aid

a petition to God for courage and strength
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Maccabees 7:37:
  
  A house of prayer and petition for thy people.

派生語

counterpetition
e-petition
petitionable
petitional
petitionary
petitionee
petitioner
petitionist
petition of right
prepetition
repetition

動詞

petition (third-person singular simple present petitions, present participle petitioning, simple past and past participle petitioned)

(transitive) To make a petition to (a sovereign or political authority).

The villagers petitioned the council to demolish the dangerous building.
- 1955 April, “Notes and News: Restoring the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 288:
  
  The company, appreciating the crippling affect that this scheme will have on its activities unless the railway is diverted, has petitioned against the North Wales Hydro-Electric Power Bill at present before the House of Lords.

参照

“petition, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “petition”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.


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PETITIONとは意味・読み方・使い方

PETITIONの
品詞ごとの意味や使い方

PETITIONの
変形一覧

PETITIONの
イディオムやフレーズ