supplicate
verb (used without object)
to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
supplicatory
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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
I have been in places where this office of Select Woman had languished for want of a proper incumbent,—that is, where the feminine element was always supplicatory, never authoritative.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various
After this he paused, and turned a supplicatory look at his captor.
From Among the Brigands by James De Mille
Her supplicatory tone and attitude, though they were somewhat assumed, proved to what a height Musa had recently risen as a personage.
From The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett
