#entreaty__prayer__appeal earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm"
supertype: asking__request the verbal act of requesting
subtype: adjuration a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something
subtype: demagoguery__demagogy impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace
subtype: flag_waving__jingoism an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions
subtype: supplication__plea humble request for help
subtype: solicitation an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status; "a solicitation to the king for relief"
subtype: beggary__begging__mendicancy a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
subtype: touch.solicitation the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch"
subtype: importunity__urgency__urging insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree"
subtype: suit a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
subtype: courtship__wooing__courting__suit a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship"
subtype: bundling.courtship a one-time custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing
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