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

Laddie stood and looked into his face with something of the supplicatory appeal that was on the countenance of the man he had just left.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

Next he read some passages from one of the inspirational utterances of Metz; after which followed prayer, each man, as in the evening meetings, repeating a little supplicatory verse.

From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Nordhoff, Charles

None of them were in a supplicatory style: the Emperor already spoke as a master; he did not entreat, he commanded.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron