supplication

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There is a plaintive expression in this musical supplication, that is apparent to all who hear it, no less than if the bird were truly offering prayers to some tutelary deity.

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  1. The act of supplicating or entreating; humble and earnest petition or prayer. Now therefore bend thine ear To supplication. Milton, P. L., xi. 31. I cannot see one say his prayers but, instead of imitating him, I fall into a supplication for him. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 6.
  2. Petition; earnest or humble request. Are your supplications to his lordship? Let me see them. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 3. 16. I have attempted one by one the lords, … With supplication prone and father's tears, To accept of ransom for my son their prisoner. Milton, S. A., l. 1459.
  3. In ancient Rome, a solemnization, or ceremonial address to the gods, decreed either on occasions of victory or in times of public danger or distress.
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  1. = French supplication = Spanish suplicacion = Portuguese supplicação = Italian supplicazione, from Latin supplicatio(n-): see supplicate.
 

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