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Definition of Supplicatory
1. Adjective. Humbly entreating. "A suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"
Similar to: Beseeching, Imploring, Pleading
Derivative terms: Supplicate, Supplicate, Supplicate, Supplicate, Supplicate, Supplicate
Definition of Supplicatory
1. a. Containing supplication; humble; earnest.
Definition of Supplicatory
1. Adjective. begging, humbly beseeching, imploring ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Supplicatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supplicatory
Literary usage of Supplicatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham, Richard D. Bingham (1855)
"Absolution at the altar always given in a supplicatory form by imposition of
hands and prayer. of hands means the first imposition that admitted them to ..."
2. Life Understood from a Scientific and Religious Point of View: And the by Frederick Lawrence Rawson (1920)
"The only result obtained by supplicatory prayer, when no realisation of God ...
In fact, the highest form of supplicatory prayer is to ask God to grant our ..."
3. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"... AUTHOR'S supplicatory DEDICATION. To thec, only, O my God, who hast put these
holy thoughts into my soul, do 1 most humbly desire to dedicate both ..."
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