suppliant in English

noun

1

a person making a humble plea to someone in power or authority.

Inside the temple is a well that is believed to have the power to bring good luck and prosperity to suppliants .

synonyms: petitioner, supplicant, pleader, beggar, applicant

adjective

1

making or expressing a plea, especially to someone in power or authority.

their faces were suppliant

synonyms: pleading, begging, imploring, entreating, supplicating, on bended knee

noun

• petitioner, supplicant, pleader, beggar, applicant
• requester, supplicant, petitioner

adjective

• pleading, begging, imploring, entreating, supplicating, on bended knee
• supplicatory, supplicant

Use "suppliant" in a sentence

1. He asked for help a suppliant attitude.

2. He asked for help in a suppliant attitude.

3. He knelt as a suppliant at the altar.

4. What can he do to help the humble suppliant?

5. Synonyms for Claimer include claimant, applicant, petitioner, pretender, supplicant, suppliant, appellant, candidate, plaintiff and suitor

6. The Argives voted unanimously to maintain the right of the suppliant.

7. Oh, Maiden, see a maiden's sorrow. Oh, Mother, hear a suppliant child!

8. Beseeching definition: begging synonyms: precative, importunate, precatory, supplicant, supplicatory, petitionary, pleading, mendicant, adjuratory, suppliant

9. Nearly ten years later, he produced "The Suppliant Women, " his first known tragedy.

10. Andromache, dressed as a suppliant, is clinging to the altar in front of the temple

11. The Agamemnon is not, like Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women, a statue half-hewn out of the rock

12. And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.

13. The faces around her suppliant, wary - she is in a benevolent lull,(Sentencedict) she measures out wit and wisdom.

14. The faces around her suppliant, wary - she is in a benevolent lull, she measures out wit and wisdom.

15. And you standing there Beseechingly.: Et vous, plantée là d'un air suppliant.: And you - Standing there, Beseechingly

16. Thou Son of David, turn thine eye and look upon the distress which is now before thee, and make thy suppliant whole.

17. An adjustment of poverty relief policy is needed to solve the problem of the serious imbalance between population and resource suppliant capacity in the resource-restricted poverty.

18. Beseeching: 1 adj begging Synonyms: imploring , pleading adjuratory earnestly or solemnly entreating importunate expressing earnest entreaty mendicant practicing beggary petitionary of the nature of or expressing a petition precative , precatory expressing entreaty or supplication suppliant , supplicant , supplicatory humbly entreating

19. Beseechingly adv adverb: Describes a verb, adjective, adverb, or clause--for example, "come quickly," "very rare," "happening now," "fall down." (as if begging, asking urgently) (dire) d'un ton suppliant loc adv locution adverbiale: groupe de mots qui servent d'adverbe

20. Craft, poisonous counsels, wayside Ambushings — No fault of thine: let Kay the seneschal Look to thy wants, and send thee satisfied — Accursed, who strikes nor lets the hand be seen!' And many another suppliant crying came With noise of ravage wrought by beast and man, And evermore a knight would ride away

21. Craft, poisonous counsels, wayside Ambushings--No fault of thine: let Kay the seneschal Look to thy wants, and send thee satisfied--Accursed, who strikes nor lets the hand be seen!" And many another suppliant crying came With noise of ravage wrought by beast and man, And evermore a knight would ride away

22. Craft, poisonous counsels, wayside Ambushings— No fault of thine: let Kay the seneschal Look to thy wants, and send thee satisfied— Accursed, who strikes nor lets the hand be seen!" And many another suppliant crying came With noise of ravage wrought by beast and man, And evermore a knight would ride away