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
A napkin is thrown over the box; and the puppet is thus carried about, and exhibited from door to door, by a boy, the others chanting some supplicatory lines.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 by Various
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
