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Suppliant definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUP'PLIANT, a. [L. supplico, to supplicate; sub and plico, to fold. See Comply and Apply.]
1. Entreating; beseeching; supplicating; asking earnestly and submissively.
The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud.
2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of humble supplication.
To bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee.
SUP'PLIANT, n. A humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
Spare this life, and hear thy suppliant's pray'r.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness" [syn: suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory] n
1: one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors" [syn: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant, requester]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from present participle of supplier to supplicate, from Latin supplicare Date: 15th century supplicant II. adjective Etymology: Middle French, present participle Date: circa 1567 1. humbly imploring ; entreating <a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness — O. J. Baab> 2. expressing supplication <upraised to the heavens…suppliant arms — William Styron> • suppliantly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 supplicating. 2 expressing supplication. --n. a supplicating person. Derivatives: suppliantly adv. Etymology: ME f. F supplier beseech f. L (as SUPPLICATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Suppliant Sup"pli*ant, n. One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively. Hear thy suppliant's prayer. --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Suppliant Sup"pli*ant, a. [F., p. pr. of supplier to entreat, L. supplicare. See Supplicate, and cf. Supplicant.] 1. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. --Dryden. 2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. Syn: Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating; imploring. -- Sup"pli*ant*ly, adv. -- Sup"pli*ant*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Supplicating, beseeching, entreating, imploring, begging, praying, suing, precatory. II. n. Petitioner, supplicant, applicant, solicitor, suitor.

Moby Thesaurus

adorant, adorer, adoring, applicant, asker, aspirant, beadsman, beggar, begging, bidder, cadging, candidate, celebrant, chapelgoer, churchgoer, claimant, communicant, congregation, daily communicant, devotional, devout, evangelist, idolater, imploring, in the dust, mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary, petitioner, postulant, prayer, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, revivalist, scrounging, seeker, solemn, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, supplicant, supplicating, supplicator, supplicatory, venerational, venerative, venerator, votary, worshiper, worshipful, worshiping