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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Suppliant

Sūp'pli-ant, a.

adjective

a. [Fr. suppliant, p. pr. of supplier, to entreat. See SUPPLICATE.] 1. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden. 2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of humble supplication. To bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee. Milton. Syn. — Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating; imploring.

Sūp'pli-ant, n.

noun

n. A humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively. Despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant. Milton.