Hypertext Webster Gateway: "supplicant"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Supplicant \Sup"pli*cant\, a. [L. supplicans, p. pr. See
{Supplicate}, and cf. {Suppliant}.]
Entreating; asking submissively. --Shak. --
{Sup"pli*cant*ly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Supplicant \Sup"pli*cant\, n.
One who supplicates; a suppliant.
The wise supplicant . . . left the event to God.
--Rogers.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
supplicant
adj : humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"
[syn: {suppliant}, {supplicatory}]
n 1: someone who prays to God [syn: {prayer}]
2: one praying humbly for something: "a suppliant for her
favors" [syn: {petitioner}, {suppliant}]
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