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didn't like being in the position of a suppliant, having to ask her parents to help her pay the rent on her apartment
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Part of the progress, according to Mr. Selee, is a reaction against President Trump’s Mexiphobia, but the underlying influences are long-term and irreversible: Mexico is no longer a feeble suppliant but a potent, necessary partner.
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Origin and Etymology of suppliant
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from present participle of supplier to supplicate, from Latin supplicare
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First Known Use: 15th century
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Definition of suppliant
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: humbly imploring : entreating
- a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness
- —O. J. Baab
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: expressing supplication
- upraised to the heavens … suppliant arms
- —William Styron
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the suppliant thief pleaded for a second chance
Origin and Etymology of suppliant
Middle French, present participle
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First Known Use: 1550
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Synonyms
beseeching, entreating, imploring, pleading, soliciting, supplicant, supplicating;
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