Thesaurus: precative
expressing entreaty or supplication
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- adj. expressing entreaty or supplication
- Suppliant; beseeching. Bp. Hopkins. Precatory words (Law), words of recommendation, request, entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases creating a trust. Jarman.
- s expressing entreaty or supplication