supplicatory
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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
His attitude was too humble and the tone of his voice too supplicatory to be resisted.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
"Let me go," he said again, with a look of supplicatory appeal.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
Some of them are supplicatory, others consolatory; some penitential, others doctrinal; and, lastly, others prophetical: from which variety of style and intention the devout soul may reap a correspondent variety of comforts and benefits.
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
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