petitionistn.
/pᵻˈtɪʃn̩ɪst/, /pᵻˈtɪʃənɪst/, U.S. /pəˈtɪʃənəst/ rare.
A person who makes a practice of petitioning; a professional petitioner.
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the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals
beseecher1382
petitioner1414
suitor1414
orator1417
suppliantc1422
supplicant1475
soliciter1536
solicitor1551
oratricle1574
pleader1584
supplicationer1585
beggar1589
incaller?1591
supplicator1593
petitor1596
beadsman1600
impetrator1605
implorer1611
imploratora1616
replicant1622
invokera1649
prostrate1648
deprecator1656
appellant1704
memorialist1706
applicationer1710
postulant1733
invocant1751
solicitant1821
petitionist1822
memorializer1859
1822 C. Lamb Let. 9 Mar. (1935) II. 318 I met a venerable old man, not a mendicant, but thereabouts—a look-beggar, not a verbal petitionist.
2000 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 9 June e1 Another Clay Chastain petition drive, another Kansas City Star editorial cartoon by Lee Judge lampooning the Cowtown's favorite petitionist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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