suppliant

IPA: sʌpɫˈaɪʌnt

noun

  • One who pleads or requests earnestly.

adjective

  • Entreating with humility.
  • Supplying; auxiliary.
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Examples of "suppliant" in Sentences

  • Who is the suppliant
  • Why is the suppliant here
  • Why did he become a suppliant
  • He Is the suppliant of the town.
  • The judge asked them to bring a suppliant.
  • The suppliant's pledge was accepted by the king.
  • To make the man a suppliant is the delight of her soul.
  • The suppliant, whom he demanded, was at all hazards retained.
  • No one thought that he is a suppliant due to his fancy appearance.
  • The waxen stood in a suppliant posture, as ready to perish in a servile manner.
  • And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.
  • African nations have the potential to suppliant Asian nations as the world's top choice for low coast garment manufacturing.
  • Almost certainly slightly distasteful in its depiction of women as cruel and cold and yet somehow entirely focused on the formal humiliation of the suppliant male.
  • He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village.
  • On the contrary, he was masterful in whatever he did, but he had a trick of whimsical wheedling that Dede found harder to resist than the pleas of a suppliant lover.
  • The Moorish girl advanced, creeping on her knees, her two hands still extended towards Meroë, who, full of pity, leaned towards the suppliant, meaning to raise her up.
  • Sadness converges into "Sweet," and the plaintive note of longing in the voice of the suppliant is inseparable from the persistent imperative in the reiterated "Be thou."
  • He said he hoped that the young candidate, if elected, would treat the liquor men fairly, to which the "suppliant" replied that he intended to treat all interests fairly.

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