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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne