exhortation, admonition, overture, siren song, pleas, avowal, salutation, suggestion, demurral, encomium, supplication, remark, missive, pronouncement, rejoinder, protestations, aphorism, lamentations, blandishments, interjection, dictum, panegyric, quip, request, kinsman, pledge, imprecations, admonishment, moralizer, denunciation, peroration, assertion, gesture, peccadillo, cri de coeur, accusation, bon mot, fulminations, cries, retort, epistle, peradventure, effusions, proclamation, circumlocution, swain, harangue, platitude, gambit, sage, sermonette, edict, curtness, suppliant, eventide, incantation, expostulation, ardor, vow, utterance, sloganeer, maxim, prophesy, obsequies, incredulousness, yawp, angelus, hallelujahs, disquisition, churlishness, forsooth, defenestration, pacem, koan, handmaid, invitation, orotund, invocation, ministrations, asker, berachah, clarion, lowliness, effusiveness, disavowal, presumptuousness, proselyte, prolixity, billet doux, spiel, pleading, kyrie eleison, good naturedness, jeremiad, insinuation, valediction, loquacity, intercession, sally, chiding, chassid, droit du seigneur, entreaties, plea, supplications, wish, farewell, lament, pleadings, bewilderment, wonderment, adieu, appeal, regret, sobbing, cry, lamentation

courting, courtship, demagoguery, demagogy, solicitation, suing, suit, wooing

appealing, beg, dissuasion, grim, hardheaded, imploring, importunate, importunity, inexorable, mulish, persuasion, persuasiveness, pleading, precative, precatory, relentless, solicit, solicitation, stern, strength, tap, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, urgency, urging

asking

prayer