Supplicating
71supplication — Synonyms and related words: Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, adjuration, aid prayer, appeal, application, beadroll, beads, begging, beseeching, beseechment, bid, bidding prayer, breviary, call, chaplet, clamor,… …
72supplicatory — Synonyms and related words: adorant, adoring, begging, cadging, devotional, devout, imploring, in the dust, mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, scrounging,… …
73apologetic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. contrite, remorseful, sorry, penitent, repentant, regretful, supplicating, retracting, self effacing, self reproachful, self condemnatory, self incriminating, explanatory, extenuating, atoning, expiatory, rueful,… …
74begging — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deSirous, anxious, in need, imploring, supplicating …
75pleading — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. imploring, supplicating, deSirous; see begging …
76supplicate — (v.) early 15c., from L. supplicatus, pp. of supplicare (see SUPPLICATION (Cf. supplication)). Related: Supplicated; supplicating …
77precatory — a. Suppliant, beseeching, supplicating, imploring, praying, begging, entreating, of supplication, prayer, or entreaty …
78suppliant — I. a. Supplicating, beseeching, entreating, imploring, begging, praying, suing, precatory. II. n. Petitioner, supplicant, applicant, solicitor, suitor …
79suppliant — 1. noun they were not mere suppliants Syn: petitioner, supplicant, pleader, beggar, applicant 2. adjective those around her were suppliant Syn: pleading, begging, imploring, entreating, supplicating; on bended knee …
80appeal — n plea, *prayer, petition, suit Analogous words: entreating or entreaty, beseeching, supplicating or supplication, imploring (see corresponding verbs at BEG): soliciting or solicitation, requesting or request, asking (see corresponding verbs at… …
