Supplicant
['sʌplɪkənt]
Definition
(a.) Entreating; asking submissively.
(n.) One who supplicates; a suppliant.
Checker: Sophia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Suppliant.
Typist: Trevor
Definition
adj. supplicating: asking submissively.—n. one who supplicates or entreats earnestly.—adv. Supp′licantly.
Inputed by Carmela
Examples
- My guardian threw his supplicant off with supreme indifference, and left him dancing on the pavement as if it were red hot. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Nevertheless, when her husband was away, she would come down like a wolf on the crawling supplicants: 'What do you people want? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typed by Hester