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Definition of suppliant:

(adj) : Entreating with humility
(n) : one who pleads or requests earnestly
"1963: I touch your beard as a suppliant, embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness. -- Euripides, Medea, trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, p. 39)"
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Definition of suppliant:

(adj) : Entreating with humility
(n) : one who pleads or requests earnestly
"1963: I touch your beard as a suppliant, embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness. -- Euripides, Medea, trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, p. 39)"
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