Crossword clues for suppliant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suppliant \Sup"pli*ant\, n. One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
Hear thy suppliant's prayer.
--Dryden.
Suppliant \Sup"pli*ant\, a. [F., p. pr. of supplier to entreat, L. supplicare. See Supplicate, and cf. Supplicant.]
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Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.
The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud.
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Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.
To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee.
--Milton.Syn: Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating; imploring. [1913 Webster] -- Sup"pli*ant*ly, adv. -- Sup"pli*ant*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French suppliant, noun use of present participle of supplier "to plead humbly, entreat, beg, pray," (Old French souploier, 12c.), from Latin supplicare "beg, beseech" (see supplication). Originally in English especially at law; sense of "humble petitioner" is from mid-16c. As an adjective, "supplicating, entreating" from 1580s. Related: Suppliance; suppliantly.
Wiktionary
a. entreating with humility. n. One who pleads or requests earnestly.
WordNet
adj. humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness" [syn: supplicant, supplicatory]
n. one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors" [syn: petitioner, supplicant]
Usage examples of "suppliant".
Antioch, to solicit, with the same professions of allegiance and gratitude, the same favor which had been granted to the suppliant Visigoths.
Suppliant of Sartor of the Many Aspects am I, a servant unyielding, subduing the lands of His foes.
The eternal immensity of the universe is the true Aula Regis in which God holds perpetual session, overlooking no suppliant, omitting no case.
He wants it known that yesterday a traveler came as a suppliant who placed himself under the protection of Salah bin Mansur of the Bani Ghassan.
The moment Sophia was departed, Jones advanced in a very suppliant manner to Mr.
Great surprise was painted on all the countenances, and the circle of adulators and suppliants which surrounded Monk an instant before, was enlarged by degrees, and ended by being lost in the large undulations of the crowd.
On the other hand, she was generous with her scanty means, let all sorts of bums and drifters share her stuffed grape-leaves as well as her pallet, seldom stole from drunks, and gave without charge to needy suppliants oracles neither more nor less enigmatic than those she dispensed to me.
Every night after dinner he lingered in the great hall so that suppliants could come to him with disputes and complaints they wished settled.
We sat on a broken column just opposite the palace and watched the suppliants come and go.
All his life he had been surrounded by attendants, hangers-on, suppliants, dogs, nobles, and the general action and confusion of the court.
God, instead of going to her with the anxious haste of suppliant and lover, I called her to me at the chancel step as if I were indeed her husband and had the right to bid her come.
But in the morning, a suppliant procession, with crosses and images, announced the submission of the Greeks, and deprecated the wrath of the conquerors: the usurper escaped through the golden gate: the palaces of Blachernae and Boucoleon were occupied by the count of Flanders and the marquis of Montferrat.
But in the morning, a suppliant procession, with crosses and images, announced the submission of the Greeks, and deprecated the wrath of the conquerors: the usurper escaped through the golden gate: the palaces of Blachernae and Boucoleon were occupied by the count of Flanders and the marquis of Montferrat.
When Firmus, in the character of a suppliant, accused his own rashness, and humbly solicited the clemency of the emperor, the lieutenant of Valentinian received and dismissed him with a friendly embrace: but he diligently required the useful and substantial pledges of a sincere repentance.
The spectacle always suggested to Thornberg an Aztec pyramid, whose gods winked red eyes at the acolytes and suppliants creeping about base and flanks.