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

All improvements have to be urged in apologetic, almost in supplicatory tones.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John

At this moment, Raeburn rushed to the window, with the view of calling for assistance; and one supplicatory cry, which, however, was unattended to, he did emit.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

All was gloom and silence, save for a monotonous and suppressed murmur of one invisible worshipper in a pew near the altar, who varied his supplicatory mutterings with long-drawn sighs.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)