supplicatory
- a word derived from supplicate.
Example Sentences
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In Moscow, officials are playing down Putin’s supplicatory position.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2023
And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.
From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2016
Laddie stood and looked into his face with something of the supplicatory appeal that was on the countenance of the man he had just left.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
After this he paused, and turned a supplicatory look at his captor.
From Among the Brigands by De Mille, James
Pos′tulātory, supplicatory: assuming or assumed without proof as a postulate; Pos′tural.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
