appeal
take a court case to a higher court for review
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,269 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,691 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- take a court case to a higher court for review He was found guilty but appealed immediately
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection also: invoke appeal to somebody for helpInvoke God in times of trouble
- be attractive to also: attract The idea of a vacation appeals to meThe beautiful garden attracted many people
- challenge (a decision) She appealed the verdict
- cite as an authority; resort to also: invoke He invoked the law that would save himI appealed to the law of 1900
noun
- earnest or urgent request also: entreaty, prayer an entreaty to stop the fightingan appeal for help
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates also: appealingness, charm his smile was part of his appeal to her
- (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial their appeal was denied in the superior court
appeal in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She stretched out her hands in a terrified appeal.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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It is a bold and direct appeal to the best instincts of the heart.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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The artist, then, like the thinker or the scientist, seeks the truth and makes his appeal.
The nigger of the "Narcissus" · Joseph Conrad · Chapter 1
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He had always been more sensitive than the people about him to the appeal of natural beauty.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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She was very young, only twenty also, but there was a maturity in her to which the boy made an appeal.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1