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Solicitant vs Suppliant - What's the difference?

solicitant | suppliant |

As nouns the difference between solicitant and suppliant

is that solicitant is one who solicits while suppliant is one who pleads or requests earnestly or suppliant can be supplicant.

As an adjective suppliant is

entreating with humility or suppliant can be , begging, pleading, imploring.

As a verb suppliant is

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solicitant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who solicits.
    • (Webster 1913)

    suppliant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Entreating with humility.
  • * Milton
    • to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)

    • Synonyms

    * beseecher, petitioner, supplicant

    Related terms

    * suppliance * suppliantly * supplicant * supplicate * supplicatingly * supplication * supplicator * supplicatory (trans-bottom) ----