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

From this terror, however, they were gradually in some measure relieved by the supplicatory language and tones of the person seeking admittance.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

He very justly observed, that the style was too supplicatory, and the representation too abject, and that he ought, at least, to have made him complain with “the dignity of a gentleman in distress.”

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

Then again, its vortex of agony swept across her lips in piteous supplicatory sobs, vibrating in the stillness like the bleating of a dazed, lost creature enmeshed in the tentacles of some merciless destroyer.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett