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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Asking humbly and earnestly; beseeching.
  2. n. A supplicant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Supplicating; entreating; beseeching; humbly soliciting.
  2. Expressive of humble supplication.
  3. n. A humble petitioner; one who asks or entreats in a supplicating manner.
  4. Supplementary.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Entreating with humility.
  2. n. One who pleads or requests earnestly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.
  2. adj. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.
  3. n. One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. humbly entreating
  2. n. one praying humbly for something

Etymologies

  1. From French suppliant, present participle of supplier. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Middle English, one who supplicates, from Old French, present participle of supplier, to entreat, from Latin supplicāre; see supplicate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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