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Recent Examples of supplicatory In Moscow, officials are playing down Putin’s supplicatory position. Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supplicatory
prayerful
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

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“Supplicatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplicatory. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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