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Suppliant

//ˈsʌpliənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Entreating with humility; supplicant.

    "to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee"

  2. 2
    Supplying; auxiliary.

    "your levy Must be suppliant"

Adjective
  1. 1
    humbly entreating wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    One who pleads or requests earnestly.

    "In reuerence therefore of the hopes vvhich the Grecians haue repoſed in you, and of the preſence of Iupiter Olympius, in vvhoſe Temple here, vve are in a manner ſuppliants to you, receiue the Mitylenians into league, and ayde vs."

  2. 2
    one praying humbly for something wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French suppliant, present participle of supplier. Doublet of supplicant.

Etymology 2

From French suppliant, present participle of supplier. Doublet of supplicant.

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