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Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.

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  1. a. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.
  2. a. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.
  3. n. One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
  4. adj. humbly entreating
  5. n. one praying humbly for something
  6. 1. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden. 2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton. Syn. -- Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating; imploring. -- Sup"pli*ant*ly, adv. -- Sup"pli*ant*ness, n. One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively. Hear thy suppliant's prayer. Dryden.
  7. One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreatssubmissively.Hear thy suppliant's prayer. Dryden.
  8. s. humbly entreating