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Supplicant

//ˈsʌplɪkənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    begging, pleading, supplicating
Adjective
  1. 1
    humbly entreating wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    one who comes to humbly ask or petition

    "It recalled all the vivid hopes and beliefs of her childhood, when she was wont to kneel before some lovely image, till the face seemed to smile encouragement, and the little supplicant felt as if beneath a mother's eye."

  2. 2
    one praying humbly for something wordnet
  3. 3
    A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.
  4. 4
    someone who prays to God wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).

Etymology 2

From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).

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