petitionary

1. 1.

   of the nature of or expressing a petition

   “the petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness”

   Similarbeseeching

Questions about petitionary

What does petitionary mean?

petitionary means "of the nature of or expressing a petition".

How many syllables are in petitionary?

petitionary has 6 syllables and divides as pe-ti-ti-o-na-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is petitionary a common word?

petitionary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.