Definition of "appeal" []

• An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication. (noun)
• A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision: an appeal to reason; an appeal to her listener's sympathy. (noun)
• Law The transfer of a case from a lower to a higher court for a new hearing. (noun)
• Law A case so transferred. (noun)
• Law A request for a new hearing. (noun)

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• "Hence the term "appeal" as I use it is broadly based and must be viewed in the context of the specific call to action."
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