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

He was called and introduced and the request put to him by Jannish, in his most elaborate and supplicatory style.

From A Beautiful Alien by Magruder, Julia

"You cannot see my father, mother," she said in a broken and supplicatory tone.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

The letter written by him to Vergennes on this occasion is one of his supplicatory masterpieces.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell