Suppliant

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suppliant \Sup"pli*ant\, a. [F., p. pr. of supplier to entreat,
     L. supplicare. See {Supplicate}, and cf. {Supplicant}.]
     1. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching;
        supplicating.
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              The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.
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              To bow and sue for grace
              With suppliant knee.                  --Milton.
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     Syn: Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating;
          imploring.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Sup"pli*ant*ly}, adv. --
          {Sup"pli*ant*ness}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suppliant \Sup"pli*ant\, n.
     One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats
     submissively.
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           Hear thy suppliant's prayer.             --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suppliant
       adj : humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"
             [syn: {supplicant}, {supplicatory}]
       n : one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her
           favors" [syn: {petitioner}, {supplicant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "suppliant":
     adorant, adorer, adoring, applicant, asker, aspirant, beadsman,
     beggar, begging, bidder, cadging, candidate, celebrant, chapelgoer,
     churchgoer, claimant, communicant, congregation, daily communicant,
     devotional, devout, evangelist, idolater, imploring, in the dust,
     mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary, petitioner,
     postulant, prayer, prayerful, precative, precatory,
     prostrate before, reverent, reverential, revivalist, scrounging,
     seeker, solemn, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, supplicant,
     supplicating, supplicator, supplicatory, venerational, venerative,
     venerator, votary, worshiper, worshipful, worshiping