suppliant

French suppliant, present participle of supplier. Doublet of supplicant

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌpliənt/

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suppliant (comparative more suppliant, superlative most suppliant)

1. Entreating with humility.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee

2. Supplying; auxiliary.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:

     your levy Must be suppliant

suppliant (plural suppliants)

1. One who pleads or requests earnestly.

   Synonyms: beseecher, petitioner, supplicant

   • 1963, Philip Vellacott, transl., Medea, translation of original by Euripides, page 39:

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

suppliant

1. present participle of supplier

suppliant (feminine suppliante, masculine plural suppliants, feminine plural suppliantes)

1. suppliant, begging, pleading, imploring

suppliant m (plural suppliants, feminine suppliante)

1. supplicant

• “suppliant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.