Supplication
[,sʌplɪ'keɪʃn] or [,sʌplɪ'keʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.
(n.) A humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty.
(n.) A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Entreaty, petition, solicitation, prayer, invocation, orison.
Checked by Ernest
Examples
- Georgiana, as if the supplication were being squeezed out of her by powerful compression. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator; but where was mine? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Without attending to this, Henry Crawford continued his supplication. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The last supplication but one I make to you, is, that you will believe this of me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This lock of hair, which now he can so readily give up, was begged of me with the most earnest supplication. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The supplication touched him home. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He laid his hand upon it, and it clasped him with a trembling supplication. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Gudrun went pale, and a darkness came over her eyes, like shame, she looked up with a certain supplication, almost slave-like. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was immediately surrounded by supplications; everybody asked it; even Edmund said, Do, Fanny, if it is not _very_ disagreeable to you. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Lucinda