Suppliant

[Sup·pli*ant]

Suppliant means someone who is asking humbly. You enter church as a suppliant, asking God to spare you from illness. You ask in a suppliant (humble) manner, because you know God is stern and demands total faith.

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Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.

Noun
one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors"

Adjective S.
humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"


a.
Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.

a.
Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.

n.
One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.


Suppliant

Sup"pli*ant , a. [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.
2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.
To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee.
Syn. -- Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating; imploring. -- Sup"pli*ant*ly, adv. -- Sup"pli*ant*ness, n.

Suppliant

Sup"pli*ant, n. One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
Hear thy suppliant's prayer.

Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.

One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.

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