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Suppliant vs Supplicating - What's the difference?

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Suppliant is a synonym of supplicating.


As verbs the difference between suppliant and supplicating

is that suppliant is while supplicating is .

As an adjective suppliant

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

As a noun suppliant

is one who pleads or requests earnestly or suppliant can be supplicant.

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) ----

    supplicating

    English

    Verb

    (head)