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Solicit

verb

(past & past part. solicited; pres. part. soliciting)

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently. Synonyms: beg, tap. "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"

Make amorous advances towards. Synonyms: court, romance, woo.

Approach with an offer of sexual favors. Synonyms: accost, hook. "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

Incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination.

Make a solicitation or petition for something desired.

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"Solicit" Quotes from Famous Books

... SIR,—I humbly solicit your patronage to the following Comedy, which, though an unfinished one, is, I flatter myself, as complete a Mystery as ...

— Memoir of Jane Austen • James Edward Austen-Leigh

... present, 'the illiterate person who stands before you is entirely unacquainted with the one to whom you have referred; nevertheless, he will, as you suggest, at once set forth, and journeying with all speed to the abode of the estimable Poo-chow, solicit his experience and advice.' ...

— The Wallet of Kai Lung • Ernest Bramah

... Black Mustache's sinister face became more resolute. "If you wanted to live respectable, why did you solicit us two? Come along—or do you want me and Pete to take you ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... pleased with my frankness. I cannot comprehend how a woman could solicit love, and say: Love me, admire me.... For a king I could not thus degrade myself. Tenderness is involuntary; one may seek to win it, one may gladly accept it when offered; but to solicit it, is even more ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... work at so much a thousand words, and submitted a sample of her work. And another typewriting lady, who submitted no sample, stated that reverses of fortune had driven her from a high position in the best society to the bitter one of a typist, and she was therefore compelled to solicit his work to enable her ...

— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner

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