Suppliant - What does it mean?
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Entreating with humility.
* Milton
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)
suppliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee