suppliant

adj

1. Entreating with humility; supplicant.

   “to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee”

   “Some plaques formed part of a mosaic that covered human life with its varied scenes of peace and war. Here we have warriors, the Cretan erect, and his darker-skinned enemy prostrate and suppliant.”

   “Oedipus, King of my country, you can see our ages who are before your door; some it may be too young for such a journey, and some too old, Priests of Zeus such as I, and these chosen young men; while the rest of the people crowd the market-places with their suppliant branches, for the city stumbles towards death, hardly able to raise up its head”

2. Supplying; auxiliary.

   “your levy Must be suppliant”

noun

1. One who pleads or requests earnestly.

   “In reuerence therefore of the hopes vvhich the Grecians haue repoſed in you, and of the preſence of Iupiter Olympius, in vvhoſe Temple here, vve are in a manner ſuppliants to you, receiue the Mitylenians into league, and ayde vs.”

   “You were not wont to turn young and beautiful suppliants from your office door. What is the real reason of this professional reluctance on your part?”

   “I touch your beard as a suppliant, embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness.”