supplicative

To witness the ability of doctors, nurses and medical technicians to rapidly reorient patients into a cooperative and willing, even supplicative state is beyond impressive, it's breathtaking.

Jim Lampley: Notes From a Weekend in the ER 2008

His feet skimmed the leafy branches that reached up, like supplicative arms, from the forest canopy.

A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

His feet skimmed the leafy branches that reached up, like supplicative arms, from the forest canopy.

A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

His feet skimmed the leafy branches that reached up, like supplicative arms, from the forest canopy.

A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

The Wives 'Language is closely related to Males' Language, except that it seems more archaic" closer to the roots, more old forms" and all the female-to-male forms are in the imperative voice, while the male-to-female forms are in the supplicative.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

Again the curtains of heaven seem to be pinned back by the stars to let the drops fall for which Mrs. Codner asks for so plaintively in that supplicative air, "Let some drops now fall on me."

The Woman's Era, Vol. 2 No. 1 1895

Again the curtains of heaven seem to be pinned back by the stars to let the drops fall for which Mrs. Codner asks for so plaintively in that supplicative air, "Let some drops now fall on me."

Ohio 1895

Again the curtains of heaven seem to be pinned back by the stars to let the drops fall for which Mrs. Codner asks for so plaintively in that supplicative air, "Let some drops now fall on me."

The Woman's Era, Vol. 2 1895

My dress, the smallness of my baggage, and being alone, agreed perfectly with this; they believed him, and my silent supplicative look, and let me go; they even asked me if I would have some water, of which there is a scarcity in these villages.

A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

Let Your ears be attentive to my supplicative plea.

Sense of Events Daniel Jackson 2010