The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)

Usage examples of supplication.

Voice answered voice in dark supplication, strophe and antistrophe, summoning .

He prayed through all the frozen petitions of his expurgated form of supplication, and not a single heart was soothed or lifted, or reminded that its sorrows were struggling their way up to heaven, borne on the breath from a human soul that was warm with love.

He stopped suddenly before the end of his supplication and Maria pushed her fist into her mouth to keep from crying out.

For a moment he seemed without bearings, unformidable, his hands still stretched out in supplication, or helplessness.

There, above the altar, was not the figure of the Pantocrator he might have expected, but a depiction of a woman, standing, her hands upraised in supplication.

With Europe constantly in their minds, they were bewildered to find the worshippers not chiefly old and young women, but men also of all ages and of every degree, from the neat peasant in his Sabbath-day best to the modish young Quebecker, who spread his handkerchief on the floor to save his pantaloons during supplication.

Nathan put on his tallit and phylacteries and recited the blessing and the Akeidah and the Shema and other supplications.

People of the Aca, to be delivered to the five Elders:--it is, that to-morrow the maiden be presented in the temple, when, by the mouth of the Zuhua Kak, of the Virgins of the Flame, the Elders, and the people, penance shall be said before the Symbol of Xibal, Lord of Death, and afterwards supplication beneath the Disc of Life to Him whose raiment is the Sun, and to Viracocha, the Doer, Lord of Dawn, that our nation and our dwelling-place be no more destroyed by the Bursting Fires and Great Waters.

At this threat his tears and supplications began over again and with renewed force, and telling me that he was in utter poverty he emptied his pockets one after the other to shew me that he had no money, and at last offered me the bloodstained badge of his uncle.

They felt, or they fancied, that on every side they were incessantly assaulted by daemons, comforted by visions, instructed by prophecy, and surprisingly delivered from danger, sickness, and from death itself, by the supplications of the church.

In response to the Soviet threat, the Democrats consistently counseled defeat, supplication, and retreat.

Both pekes and bears had little black monkey-like paws, many of which were now raised as if in supplication as the ecologists approached.

Batu was so absorbed with his thoughts that he did not realize the emperor had finished the supplication until the mandarins began to rise.

The tears and supplications of my landlady had no effect whatever upon me, I felt I could not bear the sight of Mercy any longer.

His voice quivered with ridiculous emotion, his little fat red fingers trembled as he outheld them in a theatrical gesture of supplication.