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Type Words
Synonyms prayer
Type of religious person
Has types beadsman, bedesman
Type Words
Synonyms suppliant, supplicatory
Derivation supplicate
Type Words
Synonyms petitioner, requester, suppliant
Type of applicant, applier
Has types solicitor, postulant, canvasser, besieger
Derivation supplicate

Examples of supplicant

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Coupled with deep inferiority and supplicant mentality at International level.
From the economist.com
Kosovo has also shocked Serbian officials, who tend to see it as a supplicant.
From the economist.com
Apollo promises to protect Orestes, as Orestes has become Apollo's supplicant.
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Allen fell to the ground, like a supplicant, watching Wade's three-point shot swish.
From the sacbee.com
Krishna won Radha's forgiveness but only in the posture of a supplicant.
From the nytimes.com
It is hard to be both a supplicant and a critic, but Mr Cameron did his gymnastic best.
From the economist.com
Starting something while you feel in any way the supplicant won't take you anywhere good.
From the washingtonpost.com
Not every supplicant, however, has gone to Washington and come away with bundles of cash.
From the time.com
That makes for a lazy, supplicant, and over-indulgent civil society.
From the scoop.co.nz
More examples
  • Prayer: someone who prays to God
  • Suppliant: humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"
  • Petitioner: one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors"
  • A Supplicant, one who supplicates, is a term applied to humble petitioners, and in particular to University of Oxford students who have qualified but not yet been admitted into their degree.
  • The term supplicant is used in the IEEE 802.1X standard, where the supplicant is an entity at one end of a point-to-point LAN segment that seeks to be authenticated by an authenticator attached to the other end of that link. ...
  • One who comes to humbly ask or petition; begging, pleading, supplicating
  • Noun: one who asks humbly and earnestly of
  • A supplicant is software that is installed on the client to implement the IEEE 802.1X protocol framework and one or more EAP methods. Supplicants include Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista and other operation systems and packages.