solicitation

the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposalcountableuncountable

• "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, a

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 crimeUScountableuncountable