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

Not the infant Samuel, who, in spite of his supplicatory attitude, found no pity.

From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Feller, Frank

Her letter was supplicatory, spasmodic, full of sorrow, and full of love.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

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 West, Jane