suppliant

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: sup=pli=ant

CIDE DICTIONARY

suppliant, a. [F., p. pr. of supplier to entreat, L. supplicare. See Supplicate, and cf. Supplicant.].

•  Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.  [1913 Webster]

  "The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud."  [1913 Webster]
•  Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.  [1913 Webster]

  "To bow and sue for grace
  With suppliant knee."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating; imploring.

suppliant, n. 

 One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.  [1913 Webster]
"Hear thy suppliant's prayer."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

suppliant, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 supplicating.
2 expressing supplication.
--n. a supplicating person.

Derivative

suppliantly adv.

Etymology

ME f. F supplier beseech f. L (as SUPPLICATE)

THESAURUS

suppliant

adorant, adorer, adoring, applicant, asker, aspirant, beadsman, beggar, begging, bidder, cadging, candidate, celebrant, chapelgoer, churchgoer, claimant, communicant, congregation, daily communicant, devotional, devout, evangelist, idolater, imploring, in the dust, mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary, petitioner, postulant, prayer, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, revivalist, scrounging, seeker, solemn, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, supplicant, supplicating, supplicator, supplicatory, venerational, venerative, venerator, votary, worshiper, worshipful, worshiping

ROGET THESAURUS

suppliant

Request

N request, requisition, claim, petition, suit, prayer, begging letter, round robin, motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe, imprecation, rogation, proposal, proposition, orison, incantation, mendicancy, asking, begging, postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation, requesting, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, postulant, obsecratory, importunate, clamorous, urgent, cap in hand, on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones, prithee, do, please, pray, be so good as, be good enough, have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please, Int, for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!, Dieu vous garde, dirigenos Domine, would you be so kind as to.

Petitioner

N petitioner, solicitor, applicant, suppliant, supplicant, suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder, place hunter, pot hunter, prizer, seeker, beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger, hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter, pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty), hippie, flower child, hard core unemployed, welfare client, welfare case, canvasser, bagman, salesman.