SUPPLIANT

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden.

2.
a.

Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton.

3.
n.

One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively. Hear thy suppliant's prayer. Dryden.