Associations to the word «Suppliant»

Wiktionary

SUPPLIANT, adjective. Entreating with humility.
SUPPLIANT, noun. One who pleads or requests earnestly.

Dictionary definition

SUPPLIANT, noun. One praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors".
SUPPLIANT, adjective. Humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope