What is "supplicatory"

Usage examples of "supplicatory".

He was careful to use the supplicatory tense: he was not really asking, he was simply suggesting.

Ardardin said, using not just the supplicatory tense but a form that Joseph thought might be known to grammarians as the intensive supplicatory.

James an elaborate and expensive astrological lantern by which the king could tell his fortune, and composed elegant, supplicatory letters to his new sovereign.

As he made a supplicatory gesture, the wadded-up poster fell from under his coat.

Brimmer cast a supplicatory look at Miss Keene, and hastily quitted the room.

She had arms, too, arms extended in a supplicatory gesture that had come about quite accidentally for they were stuck where they were when the mechanism that operated her last wound down.

Here was the giant himself - bragging of his past, and bragging moreover, in a supplicatory whine.

The two Germans were alert, their eyes and stance hardly altered by his supplicatory tone.

As the aroma of broiling meat filled the kitchen, his nose stan:ed to go crazy and he got down on the floor in a supplicatory posture.

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.

Guy said, moving a couple of steps closer to her and spreading his hands in a supplicatory gesture.

Among these supernatural beings - fat and bald or shaggy - went humans, generally in supplicatory postures.

But here they went in supplicatory postures, only to be mown down by the gods in one way or another.

She felt herself at the feet of Xibal, Ruler of the Shades, and her heart went out in the supplicatory expressions of his ritual.

I confess with shame, it was an unpardonable omission to proceed so far as I have already done, before I had performed the due discourses, expostulatory, supplicatory, or deprecatory, with my good lords the critics.