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- noun Plural form of
supplicant .
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Examples
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Long "trains" of virgin supplicants and assorted "Loves and
Introduction 2006
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In these professions of loyalty, the Covenanters, for so we must now call the supplicants, were probably sincere; during the whole course of the struggle the great majority never wished to touch the throne, they only wished to carry out their own idea of the strictly limited nature of the king's authority.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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This was about dispersing power, about recognizing that the disadvantaged were not supplicants asking for a place in society but citizens who had the right to take their place.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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This was about dispersing power, about recognizing that the disadvantaged were not supplicants asking for a place in society but citizens who had the right to take their place.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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An usher walks behind the row of earnest supplicants, his arms outstretched, offering to catch anyone who might fall backward as they are overcome by the Spirit of the Lord.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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This was about dispersing power, about recognizing that the disadvantaged were not supplicants asking for a place in society but citizens who had the right to take their place.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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After a long wait in Pinto's living room, an assistant hurried a reporter into the rabbi's office, past the envious glances of supplicants left outside.
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After a long wait in Pinto's living room, an assistant hurried a reporter into the rabbi's office, past the envious glances of supplicants left outside.
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Perry's hubris blinded him into giving too much credit to the evangelical supplicants who promised to anoint him as the anti-Romney as soon as he entered the race.
Jason Stanford: Rick Perry's Fatal Flaw Jason Stanford 2012
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He held frequent audiences for tribal and individual supplicants
Vanda Felbab-Brown: Implications of the Assassinations of Prominent Politicians in Afghanistan Vanda Felbab-Brown 2011
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