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
He very justly observed, that the style was too supplicatory, and the representation too abject, and that he ought, at least, to have made him complain with “the dignity of a gentleman in distress.”
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
At this moment, Raeburn rushed to the window, with the view of calling for assistance; and one supplicatory cry, which, however, was unattended to, he did emit.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various
I saw that her face was confused and supplicatory… It was a very unusual sort of face for her.
From Best Russian Short Stories by Thomas Seltzer
