Solicitation

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From Middle French sollicitation, from Latin sollicitātiō.

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solicitation (n.)

late 15c., "management," from French solicitation and directly from Latin solicitationem (nominative solicitatio) "vexation, disturbance, instigation," noun of action from past-participle stem of solicitare "to disturb, rouse, stimulate, provoke"

(see solicit). Meaning "action of soliciting" is from 1520s. Specific sexual sense is from c. 1600.