How To Use Supplicant In A Sentence
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We approach power as supplicants; we have no redress or comeback, indeed no knowledge of how it works; we accept what our politicians hand down in the name of a hereditary leader.
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He flung himself down in the flat submissive posture of a mere supplicant.
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Behind the dogcart came an oxcart pulled by two bald priests of Rift, asking for sacrifices, and behind them supplicants slashed themselves in ecstasy.
Wildfire
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He made a point of faithfully attending the therapy sessions -- to all intents the sincere supplicant anxious to make amends.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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In places the characterisation is thin: Rovena, in particular, strays too close to a stock projection of male fantasy – a beautiful supplicant with sapphic tendencies, yet who ultimately remains obedient to one man, always offering herself up to him smelling fresh after prolonged bathroom preparations.
The Accident by Ismail Kadare
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It is time we put old concepts of First and Third Worlds, leader and led, donor and supplicant, behind us.
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I have to say, after all the years of listening to this guy on the radio cutting other people to shreds with ridicule and condescension, there is something particularly assuasive about radio shock jock Don Imus playing the supplicant:
From On High
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Pleasantly weary, he stretched out on a rope bed, eavesdropping on his father's guests and supplicants -- smoky, piratical gatherings in the hujera's great room, with hubble-bubble hookahs and high-caliber bandoleers, lulling him to sleep with the streamside murmur of their mutter and growl, and the whine and hum of their radio, beaming news from the great beyond.
Excerpt: The Warlord's Son by Dan Fesperman
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Then he called the supplicant's name loud tone, and the next instant still more loudly; and now she turned, and, in the faint light of the little lamp, showed the marvellously noble outlines of her profile.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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It was by virtue of this power that English John, that great landlord, surnamed Lackland, by declaring himself the liegeman of Pope Innocent III., and placing his kingdom under submission, delivered the souls of his parents, who had been excommunicated: “Pro mortuo excommunico, pro quo supplicant consanguinei.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Lord knows, he'd learned patience, playing the supplicant grandchild while Cadmus held on to his life and his power.
GALILEE
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Another theory is that, after a career as a world-class supplicant—selling McKinsey to CEOs, buttering up billionaires to support his charities—he was ready to be the one supplicated to.
Great, Good and Guilty?
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He flung himself down in the flat submissive posture of a mere supplicant.
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The Buddhist Guan Yin provided her worldly supplicants with the karma of reproductivity and bore constant witness to their agony.
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A single denunciation might be appropriate, but anything more than that is adopting the position of a guilty supplicant, which is exactly what the marxist media wants.
Pajamas Media
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They want AI 5 as a supplicant client, rather than as a well - disposed but independent ally.
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It was not candles that had been lit here, nor was the visitor a supplicant.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Supplicants no longer approached the imperial presence on their knees, bruising their foreheads as they kowtowed so hard that the emperor heard their respect from the sound of their heads hitting the floor.
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The patient, being a penitent, is a supplicant, and has learned to pray.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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As she recited the prayer with a mien as dark as fate, the supplicant rolled her long neck from side to side, and nodded her ophidian-shaped head in accordance with a sort of regular, lethargic rhythm.
Through Russia
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No one knew what to say, but everyone was adamant that no bottle of catsup would disgrace that table, even if the supplicant was a senator commanding a vital vote.
Centennial
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She admitted, that when she heard the poor petitioner turn from the door, her heart was softened, and she did intend to open with the purpose of offering her at least a shelter; but that before she could “hirple to the door, and get the bar taken down,” the unfortunate supplicant was not to be seen; which strengthened the old woman’s opinion, that the whole was
Saint Ronan's Well
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It was at this moment in her day when she received supplicants for preferment in the court, members of the administration or the armed forces over which she wielded great influence.
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By mandating strong security, EarthLink ups the technical support issues for their retail partners because an 802. 1X client (known as a supplicant) will be required to access their network.
Wi-Fi Networking News
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She admitted, that when she heard the poor petitioner turn from the door, her heart was softened, and she did intend to open with the purpose of offering her at least a shelter; but that before she could "hirple to the door, and get the bar taken down," the unfortunate supplicant was not to be seen; which strengthened the old woman's opinion, that the whole was a delusion of Satan.
St. Ronan's Well
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The populace became a supplicant citizenry dependent upon the state rather than themselves and the socialist state aborted indigenous traditions of working class self – help, reciprocality and social insurance.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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When the police lodged a case against him recently, he and his supplicants reacted in the customary manner.
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And I couldn’t translate whom he was calling supplicant
The Best American Poetry 2010
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The outdated categorizations of First and Third Worlds, donor and supplicant, leader and led, no longer fit.
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An emaciated, rake of a lackey with crowns on his lapels kept ushering supplicants and victims into the Secretary's panelled office.
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It is a gorgeously effete, nearly 3-foot bronze sculpture of a supplicant ephebe wearing a laurel crown, his thin arms upraised.
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It is through the mbira that that the ancestors are called upon to intercede for the supplicant.
Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira
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In the Arena chapel's image of Enrico presenting a model of his chapel to the Virgin Mary, Giotto provides us with one of the first true portrait likenesses of a patron in an essentially traditional, supplicant, role.
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Gene leaned forward, his hands clasped like a supplicant before a king.
THE ASSOCIATE
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And especially not to listen to the chorus of middle class pressure groups and supplicants who clamour for their own priorities to be espoused unexamined.
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And especially not to listen to the chorus of middle class pressure groups and supplicants who clamour for their own priorities to be espoused unexamined.
