suppliantly

comparative more suppliantly · superlative most suppliantly

1. In a suppliant manner; in a humble or earnestly pleading manner.

   Suppliantly he begs, both for himself and for two miserable persons: make this one young, O Cytherean goddess, and this one make virile.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 8

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   Come hither, boy, and standing suppliantly, Lay hand upon the father that begat thee, And sitting in the guise of one who prays, Hold in thy hands my locks, and hers, and thine, A treasure of entreaty.

   1878, Edward Hayes Plumptre, transl., Aias, lines 1171–1175