Suppliant Definition

sŭplē-ənt
adjective
Asking humbly; supplicating; entreating.
Webster's New World
Expressing supplication.
Suppliant words.
Webster's New World

Entreating with humility.

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noun
A supplicant.
American Heritage
A person who supplicates; petitioner.
Webster's New World

One who pleads or requests earnestly.

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Other Word Forms of Suppliant

Noun

Singular:
suppliant
Plural:
suppliants

Origin of Suppliant

  • From Middle English one who supplicates from Old French present participle of supplier to entreat from Latin supplicāre supplicate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French suppliant, present participle of supplier.

    From Wiktionary

Suppliant Sentence Examples

  • They guaranteed absolute security to the suppliant within their limits.

  • Must the eternal God become a humble condescending suppliant to man?

  • Elizabeth was less concerned with the respective claims of Brian and Shane, the one resting on an English patent and the other on the Celtic custom, than with the question of policy involved in supporting or rejecting the demands of her proud suppliant.

  • The part of Syracuse in general Sicilian affairs has been traced in the article Sicily; but one striking scene is wholly local, when the defeated Ducetius took refuge in the hostile city (451), and the common voice of the people bade "spare the suppliant."

  • In 1765, after the battle of Buxar, when the nawab of Oudh had been decisively defeated and Shah Alam, the Mogul emperor, was a suppliant in the British camp, Lord Clive was content to claim no acquisition of territory.

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TNTANT

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