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

"You cannot see my father, mother," she said in a broken and supplicatory tone.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

His attitude was too humble and the tone of his voice too supplicatory to be resisted.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Like most of its kind, it is formal, sentimentally prolix, and supplicatory, yet not without a certain pleasant interest.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins