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
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
Her supplicatory tone and attitude, though they were somewhat assumed, proved to what a height Musa had recently risen as a personage.
From The Lion's Share by Bennett, Arnold
Once more the duke resumed his habit of letter-writing, and epistles both supplicatory and minatory were showered upon the Duchess of Angoulême and the Duchess de Berri.
From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous
