Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Asking humbly and earnestly; beseeching.
- noun A supplicant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supplementary.
- Supplicating; entreating; beseeching; humbly soliciting.
- Expressive of humble supplication.
- noun A humble petitioner; one who asks or entreats in a supplicating manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
- adjective Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.
- adjective Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Entreating withhumility . - noun One who
pleads orrequests earnestly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective humbly entreating
- noun one praying humbly for something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sadness converges into "Sweet," and the plaintive note of longing in the voice of the suppliant is inseparable from the persistent imperative in the reiterated "Be thou."
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
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To make the man a suppliant is the delight of her soul.
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He said he hoped that the young candidate, if elected, would treat the liquor men fairly, to which the "suppliant" replied that he intended to treat all interests fairly.
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The Moorish girl advanced, creeping on her knees, her two hands still extended towards Meroë, who, full of pity, leaned towards the suppliant, meaning to raise her up.
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On the contrary, he was masterful in whatever he did, but he had a trick of whimsical wheedling that Dede found harder to resist than the pleas of a suppliant lover.
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Almost certainly slightly distasteful in its depiction of women as cruel and cold and yet somehow entirely focused on the formal humiliation of the suppliant male.
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He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village.
Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
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Almost certainly slightly distasteful in its depiction of women as cruel and cold and yet somehow entirely focused on the formal humiliation of the suppliant male.
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He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village.
Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
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And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.
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