Results for solicitation

Definitions of solicitation:

part of speech: noun

Urgent or earnest request; entreaty; importunity; invitation.

part of speech: noun

A soliciting: earnest request: invitation.

Usage examples for solicitation:

• In order to prevent serious difficulties, which were apprehended, and at the solicitation of many leading citizens of Hot Springs and others interested in the welfare of the town, the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to request the late commissioners to take charge of the records of their proceedings and to perform such work as could properly be done by them under such circumstances to facilitate the future adjudication of the claims at an early day and to preserve the status of the claimants until their rights should be finally determined. "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various

• This treaty was entered into at the urgent solicitation of the people of Colombia and after a body of experts appointed by our Government especially to go into the matter of the routes across the Isthmus had pronounced unanimously in favor of the Panama route. "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various

• When this entertainment was over, and after lunch, Zenith, at our urgent request, seconded by Thorwald's solicitation resumed her narrative. "Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World", James Cowan