solicitation
noun
- act of offering or attempting to purchase goods or services, often illegally
- act or process of requesting
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /səˌlɪsɪˈteɪʃən/
noun
Etymology: From Middle French sollicitation, from Latin sollicitātiō.
- the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal
“"The instances you have quoted," replied the other, "are certainly very encouraging! Homer past a life in blindness and beggary; Columbus, in vain solicitation and feverish disappointment; and Luther's was spent in struggle, imprisonment, and danger...”
- an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime