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
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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' 2007
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To make the man a suppliant is the delight of her soul.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919
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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.
The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death Eug��ne Sue 1830
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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.
Chapter XX 2010
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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.
Venus in Fur deliasherman 2010
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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 Eric Simpson 2011
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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.
Venus in Fur deliasherman 2010
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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 Eric Simpson 2011
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And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.
Chapter 20 2010
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