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.