Supplicative
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Tending to supplicate
""Supplicative prayer, by contrast, is the more selfish version, in which one prays for rain, to pass an examination, to recover from an illness (or, less selfishly, for someone else to recover from an illness).""
Example
More examples""Supplicative prayer, by contrast, is the more selfish version, in which one prays for rain, to pass an examination, to recover from an illness (or, less selfishly, for someone else to recover from an illness).""
Etymology
From supplicate + -ive.
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