supplicate

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Yet I will never supplicate -- not meanly supplicate -- for an alms.

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  1. transitive verb To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying.
  2. transitive verb To make a humble entreaty to; beseech.
  3. intransitive verb To make a humble, earnest petition; beg.

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  • She would tell of days long gone, of things that had come to pass in the Cause, or she would recite from Holy Writ, or she would supplicate, and chant her prayers—until, out of the Most Great Prison, she soared away to the world of God. —  Memorials of the Faithful
  • The representative of the Tunis Assembly is a young man full of hopes and schemes for the future From the Guardian I will specially supplicate, on behalf of my dear brethren in India & Burma, at the Beloved’s Shrine, that they may arise with heart and soul and in perfect harmony and understanding to extend the scope of their activities, to consolidate the foundations of their work, to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of the Faith, and to carry out the Beloved’s explicit instructions for the establishment of Baha’u’llah’s undisputed sovereignty on this earth. —  Dawn of a New Day
  • He would fight his way toward her; no longer would he supplicate, he would demand. —  The Grey Cloak
  • You may supplicate, you may implore, you may leave yourself pennyless, and your virtuous children without bread; the invisible cormorant will still call for more; and, as we saw, only the other day, a wretch was convicted of having, at the instigation of his prostitute, beaten his aged mother_, to get from her the small remains of the means necessary to provide her with food. —  Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
  • But by thy beard which I supplicate, reverence me, pity me; go to the Grecian army, and remind them that it is a shameful thing to slay women whom ye have once spared, and that too dragging them from the altar. —  The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
 

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  1. Middle English supplicaten, from Latin supplicāre, supplicāt-, from supplex, supplic-, suppliant; see supple.

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  1. from Latin supplicatus, past participle of supplicare (later Italian supplicare = Spanish suplicar = Portuguese supplicar = French supplier), beseech, supplicate, from supplex (supplic-), kneeling down, humble: see supple.
 

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