supplication

Examples of supplicant

supplicant
Meanwhile, the main tasks of lowranking officers often appear to be collecting tolls from drivers and supplicants, and waiting for something to happen.
The supplicant hardly needed to add that the essay and the reward could both be sent by electronic mail.
In each of the examples noted here, the clients (or supplicants) were legally entitled to that which they requested.
To the right of the lowest of the three seated figures, the other in a pair of bound supplicants presumably had been carved.
Some skipped the broker and appealed directly to the politician, sometimes as a patron, sometimes simply with a supplicant appeal.
In the case of a wealthy private man, the supplicant requested some goods.
The king's neglect of his subjects and supplicants forebodes the worst.
Especially for those illiterate supplicants, the resulting document must have been a collaborative process between supplicant and paid scribe (arzuhalci).
The professional/client relationship was seen as essential, rather than an owner/supplicant relationship.
People who study law and science are accustomed to viewing judges as gatekeepers and scientists as supplicants.
Some of their patronage was of course ideologically based + but the ideology of the supplicant was not always easy to determine, and was not always the central issue.
Abbedin learned quickly to perform with authority and decorum and to provide clear answers to supplicant's concerns and anxieties.
Civic oaths often began by charging the supplicant to swear allegiance to the monarch.
It is all the difference between a man on his feet and a supplicant on his knees.
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