Definition of "obtestation"

obtestation

noun
countable and uncountable, plural obtestations
1. (archaic) The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation.
  Quotations
  Antonio asserted this with great obtestation.
  1652 January 12 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819
  [T]he ten thousand Judiths press up, resistless; with obtestations, with outspread hands,—merely to speak to the Mayor.
  1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, (please specify the book or page number)