Today's word only differs one character from the word 'sollitation'.Are they related? The word means the opposite I think from pollicitation.
You ask for a promise, (to be employed or someting else). Can I imagine those two words as being on opposite sides? An offering and a request?
Or is there no explainable connection? I mean,the P and the S do they stand for something?
I'm also thinking of the words pollution and solution.(a little lame as it should be sollution to match)