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

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

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