Meanings
comparative more supplicant · superlative most supplicant
plural supplicants
- one who comes to humbly ask or petition
It recalled all the vivid hopes and beliefs of her childhood, when she was wont to kneel before some lovely image, till the face seemed to smile encouragement, and the little supplicant felt as if beneath a mother's eye.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 185 - computingA device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehumbly entreating
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Origin
- Latinsupplicans“supplicating, bowing down”
- Englishsupplicant
From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).
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