#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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