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supplicant
Synonyms and Antonyms of supplicant
asking humbly hated having to go before his boss like a supplicant beggar whenever he needed some time off to attend to personal matters Synonyms beseeching, entreating, imploring, pleading, prayerful, soliciting, suppliant, supplicating, supplicatoryRelated Words begging, importunate, insistent, persistent
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supplicant
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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 Synonyms petitioner, pleader, solicitor, suitor, suppliant Related Words beggar, mendicant, panhandler; cadger, moocher, schnorrer; asker, requester, suer
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