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Suppliant vs Suing - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between suppliant and suing

is that suppliant is one who pleads or requests earnestly while suing is the act of one who sues for something.

As verbs the difference between suppliant and suing

is that suppliant is present participle of lang=fr while suing is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective suppliant

is entreating with humility.

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) ----

    suing

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

  • The act of one who sues for something.
  • * Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • (obsolete) The process of soaking through anything.
  • * (Francis Bacon)
    • In this instance, there is, upon the by, to be noted, the percolation or suing of the verjuice through the wood; for verjuice of itself would never have passed through the wood: so as, it seemeth, it must be first in a kind of vapour, before it pass.
    (Webster 1913)

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