suppliant

Speech parts

1. suppliant - Noun

2. suppliant - Adjective

3. suppliant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.

Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

begging imploring supplicant beseeching supplicatory entreating supplicating inquirer aspirant supplication petitioner asker candidate prayer competitor
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Antonyms

godless beneficent bad evil secular temporal
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Hypernyms

applicant applier

Hyponyms

solicitor canvasser besieger postulant

Examples

"Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Samuel Johnson

How, save through obscure Terrors, imagine more implacable still And as a suppliant the god who some day will Receive the gift of your grace! and for whom, Devoured by anguish, do you keep the unknown Splendor and mystery of your being? Stéphane Mallarmé

The offering is not to buy anything by suffering, but - If only the suppliant can do anything for God's children! Florence Nightingale

Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just. Samuel Johnson

a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness Source: Internet

However, to save Strephon from losing his love, Iolanthe resolves to present his case to the Lord Chancellor while veiled ("My lord, a suppliant at your feet"). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

suppliable supplial suppliance suppliantly supplicancy supplicant