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Supplicatory

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sup·pli·cate  (spl-kt)
v. sup·pli·cat·ed, sup·pli·cat·ing, sup·pli·cates
v.tr.
1. To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying.
2. To make a humble entreaty to; beseech.
v.intr.
To make a humble, earnest petition; beg.
[Middle English supplicaten, from Latin supplicre, supplict-, from supplex, supplic-, suppliant; see supple.]
suppli·cation n.
suppli·ca·tory (-k-tôr, -tr) adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.supplicatory - humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"
suppliant, supplicant
beseeching, imploring, pleading - begging


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She besought him, more pathetically and earnestly, with her little supplicatory hand, than she could have done in any words.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
Lorry, in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: "pray control your agitation-- a matter of business.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
Here, the old gentleman was seized with a violent fit of coughing, which, being terminated, he nodded his head and winked and made several supplicatory and threatening gestures to his son, all of which Sam Weller steadily abstained from seeing.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
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