suppliant
[suhp-lee-uh nt]
- a person who supplicates; petitioner.
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- supplicating.
- expressive of supplication, as words, actions, etc.
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Origin of suppliant
1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French, present participle of supplier < Latin supplicāre to beseech, supplicate. See -ant
Suppliants, The
- a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- a tragedy (c420 b.c.) by Euripides.
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In the "Suppliants" Garrick could have made nothing of Pelasgus.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Now then, will you reject those who appear as suppliants before you?
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IVJ. H. Merle D'Aubign
In the Veda we are told that the suppliants "squeeze the soma with stones."
The History of Antiquity, Volume IV (of 6)Max Duncker
These suppliants did not live to see the “reformation” of God's children.
The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2Edward Tyas Cook
God delivers His suppliants that they may magnify Him before men.
The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Volume IIIAlexander Maclaren
suppliant
- expressing entreaty or supplication
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- another word for supplicant
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Word Origin
C15: from French supplier to beseech, from Latin supplicāre to kneel in entreaty; see supple
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Word Origin and History for suppliants
suppliant
n.
early 15c., "humble petitioner," from Middle French suppliant, originally present participle of supplier "to plead humbly, entreat, beg, pray," from Latin supplicare "beg, beseech" (see supplication).
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