supplicatory
Example Sentences
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In Moscow, officials are playing down Putin’s supplicatory position.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2023
And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2016
Then again, its vortex of agony swept across her lips in piteous supplicatory sobs, vibrating in the stillness like the bleating of a dazed, lost creature enmeshed in the tentacles of some merciless destroyer.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
From this terror, however, they were gradually in some measure relieved by the supplicatory language and tones of the person seeking admittance.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
A procession was therefore instantly ordered, which we joined with flying colours and a few crosses, the image of the Virgin Mary being carried in front, and we sang supplicatory hymns as we moved along.
From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
