- solicitation - an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status; "a solicitation to the king for relief"
--1 is a kind of entreaty, prayer, appeal
--1 has particulars:beggary, begging, mendicancy; touch; importunity, urgency, urging Derived form: verb solicit1 - solicitation, appeal, collection, ingathering - request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children"
--2 is a kind of request, petition, postulation
--2 has particulars: whip-round - solicitation, allurement - the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money)
--3 is a kind of enticement, temptation
Derived form: verb solicit3