Suppliant
21suppliant — Synonyms and related words: adorant, adorer, adoring, applicant, asker, aspirant, beadsman, beggar, begging, bidder, cadging, candidate, celebrant, chapelgoer, churchgoer, claimant, communicant, congregation, daily communicant, devotional, devout …
22suppliant — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun One who humbly entreats: beggar, prayer2, suitor, supplicant. See REQUEST …
23suppliant — sup|pli|ant [ sʌpliənt ] noun count a SUPPLICANT …
24suppliant — sup·pli·ant || sÊŒplɪənt n. supplicant, petitioner, one who earnestly requests …
25suppliant — [ sʌplɪənt] noun a person who supplicates. adjective making or expressing a humble or earnest plea. Derivatives suppliantly adverb …
26suppliant — I. a. Supplicating, beseeching, entreating, imploring, begging, praying, suing, precatory. II. n. Petitioner, supplicant, applicant, solicitor, suitor …
27suppliant — adj 1. supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory; asking, petitioning, precatory, entreating, suing, beseeching, praying, imploring, imprecatory; begging, mendicant, solicitous, importunate; hat in hand, on bended knee, looking for a handout. n 2.… …
28suppliant — sup·pli·ant …
29suppliant — sup•pli•ant [[t]ˈsʌp li ənt[/t]] n. 1) a person who supplicates; petitioner 2) supplicating 3) expressive of supplication, as words or actions • Etymology: 1400–50; < MF, prp. of supplier < L supplicāre to supplicate sup′pli•ant•ly, adv.… …
30suppliant — /ˈsʌpliənt / (say supleeuhnt) noun 1. someone who supplicates; a humble petitioner. –adjective 2. supplicating. 3. expressive of supplication, as words, actions, etc. {Middle English, from French, present participle of supplier, Old French… …
