SUPPLICANT


Meaning of SUPPLICANT in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But finally she is apparently moved by the piteous sight of the distressed supplicant and laboriously counts out 995 roubles change.

Maximum use might be made by supplicants and petitioners of the distance between them and Rome.

More than one lord lieutenant told me almost apologetically of the number of supplicants who sought his intervention with the democratically-chosen authorities.

Most newly-appointed Prime Ministers are embarrassed by a plethora of well-qualified supplicants.

Whether they came on foot or in polished Ambassadors, the stream of guests sat before Nagji like supplicants.

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