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noun

Suppliant n. One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively. "Hear thy suppliant's prayer."

adjective

Suppliant adj.

Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. "The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud."

Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. "To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee."

Synonyms: Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating; imploring.

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Etymology of 'Suppliant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Suppliant" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon this abject suppliant with the most unmitigated scorn. There is always something contemptible in the sight of one man pleading to another for assistance in his love affairs—that is a business which he should do for himself. How much greater, then, is the humiliation involved when the ...

— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard

... me down (a year to-morrow), Bidding me rise from off my suppliant knee, And, while regretful if you caused me sorrow, Murmured, "Sebastian, it can never be," I did not lay aside my fond ambition; I told myself, in spite of what occurred, "This is her lunch or three o'clock edition, And not ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 17, 1920 • Various

... saw Lyveden, stiffened and stood stock still. The next second, with his body clapped to the floor, he had darted sharply across and, laying his head sideways, crouched at his idol's feet—an adoring suppliant, craving to be raised. ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... some where else, I suppose," says the suppliant. After the boy has stumbled across the ploughed ground, and is fairly over ...

— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... the complaint of our suppliant. Nimfadius asserts that, while he was resting, the country people artfully drove off his ...

— The Letters of Cassiodorus - Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of - Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator • Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

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