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


adjective
Suppliant  adj.  
1.
Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. "The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud."
2.
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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"Suppliant" Quotes from Famous Books



... when I thought the audience was ended, a chamberlain advanced to the foot of the throne, and kneeling, said that a suppliant prayed speech with the Inca. Upanqui waved his sceptre, that long staff which I have described, in token that he should be admitted. Then presently up the chamber came Kari arrayed in the tunic and cloak of an Inca prince, wearing in his ear a disc carved with the ...
— The Virgin of the Sun • H. R. Haggard
... that the fault was mine, But I cannot, will not speak; How should I, suppliant, meek, His gracious pardon seek— Tho' the fault were ...
— The Path of Dreams - Poems • Leigh Gordon Giltner
... may be, here was the major a suppliant for his services, and here was he, Culhane, and although the major was paying well for his minute room and his probably greatly decreased diet, still Culhane could not resist the temptation to make a show of him, to picture him as the more or ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... he pleases. He perhaps has reduced you to this plight. However, since your wanderings have brought you so near to our city, it lies in our duty to supply your wants. Clothes and what else a human hand should give to one so suppliant, and so tamed with calamity, you shall not want. We will show you our city and tell you the name of our people. This is the land of the Phaeacians, of which my father, Alcinous, ...
— THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES • CHARLES LAMB
... clouds oppressed, Should vexing thoughts distract thy breast? Turn thou to Him in every pain, Whom never suppliant sought in vain; Thy strength in joy's ecstatic day, Thy hope, ...
— Daily Strength for Daily Needs • Mary W. Tileston


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