Suppliant

//ˈsʌpliənt//

Synonyms for "suppliant" (64 found)

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Translations

24 translations across 12 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ἱκέτης noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • умолителен adj (entreating with humility)
  • проси́тел noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)

Finnish

1 entries
  • anova noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)

French

2 entries
  • suppliant adj (entreating with humility)
  • suppliant noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)

Irish

4 entries
  • aisceánach adj (entreating with humility)
  • impíoch adj (entreating with humility)
  • iarrthóir noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)
  • idirghuítheoir noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)

Italian

1 entries
  • supplice noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)

Latin

1 entries
  • supplex adj (entreating with humility)

Polish

4 entries
  • błagający adj (entreating with humility)
  • błagalny adj (entreating with humility)
  • proszalny adj (entreating with humility)
  • suplikant noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • suplicante adj (entreating with humility)

Russian

4 entries
  • проси́тельный adj (entreating with humility)
  • умоля́ющий adj (entreating with humility)
  • проси́тель noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)
  • проси́тельница noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)

Spanish

1 entries
  • suplicante adj (entreating with humility)

Welsh

1 entries
  • gweddïwr noun (one who pleads or requests earnestly)

Sample sentences

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"But I, who walk in majesty as queen of the gods, both sister and wife of Jupiter, I am still waging wars with one tribe for all these years! And who will worship the divine spirit of Juno after this, or what suppliant will bring an offering to her altars?"

Source: tatoeba (6617219)

Juno then, as a suppliant, addressed him in these words: "Aeolus (for the father of the gods has granted you authority to calm the seas and to stir them up with the winds), a race hateful to me is sailing upon the Tyrrhenian sea, carrying Troy along with its conquered gods to Italy."

Source: tatoeba (6631899)

Meanwhile, with beaten breasts and streaming hair, / the Trojan dames, a sad and suppliant train, / the veil to partial Pallas' temple bear. / Stern, with averted eyes the Goddess spurns their prayer.

Source: tatoeba (6792192)

But gladly sire Anchises hails the sign, / and gazing upward through the starlit air, / his hands and voice together lifts in prayer: / "O Jove omnipotent, dread power benign, / if aught our piety deserve, if e'er / a suppliant move thee, hearken and incline / this once, and aid us now and ratify thy sign."

Source: tatoeba (6872764)

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