supplicatory
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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
A procession was therefore instantly ordered, which we joined with flying colours and a few crosses, the image of the Virgin Mary being carried in front, and we sang supplicatory hymns as we moved along.
From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
I have been in places where this office of Select Woman had languished for want of a proper incumbent,—that is, where the feminine element was always supplicatory, never authoritative.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various
She besought him, more pathetically and earnestly, with her little supplicatory hand, than she could have done in any words.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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