supplicate
verb (used without object)
to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
had been supplicating
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past perfect progressiveof supplicate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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All through the hours of night, while the monks were sleeping, Brother Jasper had been supplicating his God for light; but in his soul remained a darkness deeper than that of the blackest night.
From Orientations by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
