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suppliant::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | supplicant, supplicatory |
a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness.
suppliant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | petitioner, requester, supplicant |
| Type of | applicant, applier |
| Has types | solicitor, postulant, canvasser, besieger |
| Derivation | supplicate |
a suppliant for her favors.
Examples of suppliant
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If only she came nearer and took my soft hand, immediately I would become her suppliant.
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The hothouse upbringing keeps him devout, unworldly and suppliant.
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The supplicant may also be described as a suppliant but the former word is more commonly used.
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At a time when women were perceived as gentle suppliant chattels, Ibsen was probing the feminine psyche in depth.
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Yet dutiful temple suppliant that she is, she will serve her customers day in and day out with the utmost professionalism and aplomb.
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They want to fish on the weekends and they like the idea of suppliant women who will fit in, but also have their own lives.
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He has been almost as much a suppliant as an authority, a man searching for an elusive consensus in town halls and along Main Street.
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He was employed successively at the ministries of the interior and of war, and was appointed on 20 September 1793 third deputy suppliant of Paris by the Luxembourg section.
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He was responsible for killing the followers of Cylon of Athens during the attempted coup of 632 BC, as Cylon had taken refuge as a suppliant at the temple of Athena.
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On her return to Indonesia, the Islamic right criticises her cooperation with America's war in Afghanistan, and the nationalist left criticises here for being too suppliant to foreign investors.
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- Humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"
- Petitioner: one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors"
- One who pleads or requests earnestly; Entreating with humility
- Anyone who makes a request or prayer from a position of powerlessness. In Greek culture, the suppliant was a sacred position with special rights, responsibilities, and visual symbols. Suppliants wore or carried special emblems, such as olive branches, to identify themselves. ...
- A person who supplicates; petitioner.
