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Supplicant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who supplicates; a suppliant.

adj. Supplicating.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. begging, pleading, supplicating

n. one who comes to humbly ask or petition

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Entreating; asking submissively.

n. One who supplicates; a suppliant.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Entreating; imploring; asking humbly.

n. One who supplicates or humbly entreats; a humble petitioner; a suppliant.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone who prays to God

adj. humbly entreating

n. one praying humbly for something

Word Usage

"Then he called the supplicant's name loud tone, and the next instant still more loudly; and now she turned, and, in the faint light of the little lamp, showed the marvellously noble outlines of her profile."

Equivalent

pleading imploring beseeching

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

entreating suppliant asking asker

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

office-seeker suppliant suddaine without probationer