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In a manner of asking humbly and earnestly; In a beseeching manner.

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Usage examples (30)
  • Quickly I lifted myself piteously, suppliantly to him.
  • See looked suppliantly towards her lover, as though beseeching him to carry on the fight for her.
  • "Permit me to crawl suppliantly to him, proposing myself for his pleasures, " she whispered, frightened.
  • Judah suppliantly asks that leave may be given him to speak, because his narrative was about to be prolix.
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