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
I saw that her face was confused and supplicatory… It was a very unusual sort of face for her.
From Best Russian Short Stories by Thomas Seltzer
A silent appeal to Heaven succeeded; and then, without one supplicatory address for mercy, in a manly tone, he inquired what time would be allowed them to prepare for death.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
The lights at the altar burnt dimly in his eyes—the loud antiphon and the supplicatory prayer fell upon a listless ear.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
