Supplicatory

3 definitions found

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

  Supplicatory \Sup"pli*ca*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. supplicatoire.]
     Containing supplication; humble; earnest.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  supplicatory
       adj : humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"
             [syn: {suppliant}, {supplicant}]

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

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "supplicatory":
     adorant, adoring, begging, cadging, devotional, devout, imploring,
     in the dust, mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary,
     prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, reverent,
     reverential, scrounging, solemn, suppliant, supplicant,
     supplicating, venerational, venerative, worshipful, worshiping