Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A petitioner.
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Examples
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In my way home through the Borough I met a venerable old man, not a mendicant, but thereabouts; a look-beggar, not a verbal petitionist; and in the coxcombry of taught charity I gave away the cake to him.
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