suppliant
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From French suppliant, present participle of supplier.
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suppliant (comparative more suppliant, superlative most suppliant)
- Entreating with humility.
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suppliant (plural suppliants)
- One who pleads or requests earnestly.
- 1963: I touch your beard as a suppliant, embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness. — Euripides, Medea, trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, p. 39)
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