appeal
Noun
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subtypes:
- adjuration - a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something
- demagoguery, demagogy - impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace
- plea, supplication - a humble request for help from someone in authority
- solicitation - an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status
- suit - a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
- courting, courtship, suit, wooing - a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
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is a type of: attractiveness - sexual alluresubtypes:
- siren call, siren song - the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous
- winsomeness - childlike charm or appeal
same as: appealingness, charm -
referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityis a type of: legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings - (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
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is a type of: petition, postulation, request - a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authoritysubtypes: whip-round - (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose
Verb
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is a type of: challenge - issue a challenge to
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subtypes:same as: invoke
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subtypes:same as: attract
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is a type of: challenge, take exception - raise a formal objection in a court of law
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same as: invoke
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