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as in prayerful
asking humbly hated having to go before his boss like a supplicant beggar whenever he needed some time off to attend to personal matters

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supplicant

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noun

as in suppliant
one who asks earnestly for a favor or gift the new governor soon had to deal with a long line of supplicants asking for jobs and other political favors

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Recent Examples of supplicant
Adjective
For the first time in years, Xi appeared to have successfully positioned the United States as supplicant in the bilateral relationship. Matt Pottinger, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2024 Speakers seemed alternately angry and supplicant, aware, at some level, their efforts probably won’t work. Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
Noun
And when Spotify emerged as the dragon-slaying supplicant of the new world order and came calling, music squeezed several years and every crumb on the plate to close a collective deal— not just for licensing fees, but ownership stakes in Ek’s startup to the tune of 20%. Jeff Rabhan, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2025 Jeff Bezos blasted by former WaPo columnist for being ‘Trump supplicant,’ ‘plummeting morale’ | RISING Amber Duke and Lindsey Granger react to Washington Post columnist Joe Davidson quitting his job while calling out Jeff Bezos’s editorial constraints. The Hill, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for supplicant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supplicant
Adjective
  • The Sagrada Família was founded as an expiatory church, meaning that it would be financed by prayerful donations from people atoning for their sins.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Pärt’s formulas, born out of long, prayerful periods with sacred texts, offer beauty in the warmth and friction of relationships: melody and tintinnabuli, word and the limits of language, sounds and silence.
    Jeffers Engelhardt, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And as happens with the testimonies of the suppliants at the Asclepieion, the stelae ferry the feelings and names of these distant others across the ages to us.
    Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Like other Te Deums, the work is both laudatory and suppliant, petitioning the divine for continued mercy.
    Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2021
Noun
  • In Havana, beggars are ubiquitous.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Brando, the owner of an atoll in Tahiti, where his family dwelled, had become the beggar of Hollywood, who had to feed on crumbs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His solicitor informed the judge there would be no application for bail at this stage, and that an Arabic interpreter had been booked to assist him during the proceedings, The Irish Times reported.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The solicitor said key forensic evidence remains pending, writing that most of Dickey’s 40 prior arrests occurred outside his jurisdiction.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The trial court merely instructed counsel not to manage petitioner’s testimony during that break.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The petitioners filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court in April.
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Upon connecting with the link and entering the code, the recipient is presented with a drag-and-drop target for sharing files with the requester.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The owner then digitally signs the request with the private key to prove to the CA that the requester does, in fact, have control of the private key.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Supplicant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplicant. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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