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Supplicatory

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adj. begging, humbly beseeching, imploring

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Containing supplication; humble; earnest.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Containing supplication, or humble petition; submissive; humble.

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

adj. humbly entreating

Word Usage

"A major drawback of this arrangement was that business was primarily in a supplicatory position and unable to engage freely in open and forthright public debate about policy issues."

Equivalent

pleading imploring beseeching

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

humble earnest asking

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

forward-leaning half-reclining seven-point warding-off leading edge