suppliant

From French suppliant, present participle of supplier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌpliənt/

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suppliant (comparative more suppliant, superlative most suppliant)

1. Entreating with humility.
   • Milton

     to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee

2. Supplying; auxiliary.

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suppliant (plural suppliants)

1. One who pleads or requests earnestly.

   Synonyms: beseecher, petitioner, supplicant

   • 1963, Philip Vellacott, transl., Medea, translation of original by Euripides, page 39:

     I touch your beard as a suppliant, embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness.

suppliant

1. present participle of supplier

suppliant (feminine singular suppliante, masculine plural suppliants, feminine plural suppliantes)

1. suppliant, begging, pleading, imploring

suppliant m (plural suppliants, feminine suppliante)

1. supplicant