Synonyms for suppliant

Grammar : Noun

Spell : suhp-lee-uh nt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌp li ənt

Définition of suppliant

Origin : early 15c., "humble petitioner," from Middle French suppliant, originally present participle of supplier "to plead humbly, entreat, beg, pray," from Latin supplicare "beg, beseech" (see supplication).

noun asker

Example sentences :

Here was the man whom she hated, suppliant before her to know the truth.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

She not only assumed the attitude, but felt the spirit of a suppliant.
Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox

The waxen image is at its feet, as a suppliant, and awaiting only death.
Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet

To go a suppliant to that pious icicle my mother were worse than useless.
Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini

The suppliant raised his head, and his fingers relaxed their hold.
Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair

It is a sorry part, that of suppliant, but so long as it is for another it is endurable.
Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever

There was nothing humble in her demeanour, nothing which seemed to tell of a suppliant.
Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope

I waited not for the usual question to a suppliant, 'What do you want?'
Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe

I am to thee in place of a suppliant, to be revered, O Jove-nurtured one!
Extract from : « The Iliad of Homer (1873) » by Homer

Later, she could approach death with suppliant hands, but now she must be ready.
Extract from : « The Lion's Brood » by Duffield Osborne

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