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petitioning

petitioning is the present participle and gerund of petition.

Meaning of petition

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make a petition to (a sovereign or political authority).
    • The villagers petitioned the council to demolish the dangerous building.

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Noun

petitioning (plural petitionings)

  1. The act of making a petition or appeal.
    • They would have turned her forth, I think, but for my own poor petitionings, unceasing in her behalf.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Forms of petitioning

pluralpetitionings

Questions about petitioning

What does petitioning mean?
Petitioning means the act of making a petition or appeal.
What is petitioning the present participle and gerund of?
Petitioning is the present participle and gerund of petition.
What part of speech is petitioning?
Petitioning is a noun.
What is the plural of petitioning?
The plural of petitioning is petitionings.

Words near petitioning in the dictionary

  1. petitionee
  2. petitionees
  3. petitioner
  4. petitioners
  5. petitioneth
  6. petitioning
  7. petitionings
  8. petitionist
  9. petitionists
  10. petitions
  11. petitions of right

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Adapted from Wiktionary: petitioning (page history and authors); petition (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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