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SOLICITATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)
Synonyms:
allurement; solicitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("solicitation" is a kind of...):
enticement; temptation (the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire)
Derivation:
solicit (approach with an offer of sexual favors)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Request for a sum of money
Example:
an appeal to raise money for starving children
Synonyms:
appeal; collection; ingathering; solicitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("solicitation" is a kind of...):
petition; postulation; request (a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solicitation"):
whip-round ((British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An entreaty addressed to someone of superior status
Example:
a solicitation to the king for relief
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("solicitation" is a kind of...):
appeal; entreaty; prayer (earnest or urgent request)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solicitation"):
beggary; begging; mendicancy (a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person))
touch (the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan))
importunity; urgency; urging (insistent solicitation and entreaty)
Derivation:
solicit (make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently)
Context examples:
As for the navy, it had fashion on its side, but I was too old when the subject was first started to enter it—and, at length, as there was no necessity for my having any profession at all, as I might be as dashing and expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be most advantageous and honourable, and a young man of eighteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
