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Definition of Suppliant

1. Adjective. Humbly entreating. "A suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"

2. Noun. One praying humbly for something. "A suppliant for her favors"

Definition of Suppliant

1. a. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.

2. n. One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.

Definition of Suppliant

1. Adjective. Entreating with humility. ¹

2. Noun. One who pleads or requests earnestly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suppliant

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppliant

suppler supples supplest suppletion suppletions suppletive suppletively suppletories suppletory suppli

suppli al telefono supplial supplials suppliance suppliances suppliant (current term) suppliantly suppliants supplicancy supplicant

supplicants supplicate supplicated supplicates supplicating supplicatingly supplication supplications supplicative supplicator

Literary usage of Suppliant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1894)
"And the said suppliant, protesting that the plea of the said Attorney General by him thirdly above pleaded, and the matters therein contained, ..."

2. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1873)
"... of yor said suppliant being in the highway betwen yo' eaid suppliant è his footmen, ... wch they kept, yo' said suppliant being in nombre but Ivi ..."

3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... WHERE HE IS RECEIVED AS A suppliant AND GUEST, AND ALCINOUS PROMISES TO FURTHER HIM ON HIS WAY HOME ON THE MORROW. THUS then was the goodly Odysseus, ..."

4. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... WHERE HE IS RECEIVED AS A suppliant AND GUEST, AND ALCINOUS PROMISES TO FURTHER HIM ON HIS WAY HOME ON THE MORROW. THUS then was the goodly Odysseus, ..."

5. Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1887)
"That when your suppliant purchased his partes, hee had noe certainty therof more then for one yeere in the Globe, and there was a chargeable suit then ..."

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