Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden.
Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton.
One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively. Hear thy suppliant's prayer. Dryden.
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