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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suppliant \Sup"pli*ant\, noun One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
Hear thy suppliant's prayer. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suppliant \Sup"pli*ant\, adjective [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}, adverb -- {Sup"pli*ant*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
suppliant
adjective: humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness" [syn: {supplicant}, {supplicatory}]
noun: one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors" [syn: {petitioner}, {supplicant}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "suppliant": 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
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