appeal
Noun
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Earnest or urgent request (synset 107201488)
hyponym:
- 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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Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates (synset 104694682)
hypernym: attractiveness - sexual allurehyponym:
- siren call, siren song - the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous
- winsomeness - childlike charm or appeal
synonym: appealingness, charm -
(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial (synset 101188101)
domain category: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityhypernym: legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings - (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
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Request for a sum of money (synset 106525755)
hypernym: petition, postulation, request - a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authorityhyponym: whip-round - (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose
Verb
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Take a court case to a higher court for review (synset 202503235)
hypernym: challenge - issue a challenge to
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Request earnestly (something from somebody)
Ask for aid or protection (synset 200757492)hyponym:synonym: invoke -
Be attractive to (synset 201811849)
hyponym:synonym: attract
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Challenge (a decision) (synset 202503473)
hypernym: challenge, take exception - raise a formal objection in a court of law
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Cite as an authority
Resort to (synset 201026873)synonym: invoke
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