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Supplicant   Listen
adjective
Supplicant  adj.  Entreating; asking submissively.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Supplicant" Quotes from Famous Books



... I accepted. This, I made a Baron of my realm." He transferred his gaze to Konar. Suddenly, he looked feeble and humbly supplicant. ...
— Millennium • Everett B. Cole

... from all but sin,' replied the supplicant; 'I havena had mair than a mouthful of cauld water since I passed the Border, and deil a ane of ye is like to say to me, "Dog, will ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

... upon his neck and shoulders, after the manner of carrying dead goats; for he was a lusty, strong-limbed, sturdy rogue. The condition being agreed upon, Friar Crankcod trusseth himself up to his very ballocks, and layeth upon his back, like a fair little Saint Christopher, the load of the said supplicant Dodin, and so carried him gaily and with a good will, as Aeneas bore his father Anchises through the conflagration of Troy, singing in the meanwhile a pretty Ave Maris Stella. When they were in the ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais



Words linked to "Supplicant" :   prayer, applicant, petitioner, beadsman, supplicate, requester, canvasser, applier, besieger



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