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UK
/sˌʌplɪkˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- a humble request for help from someone in authority
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the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
the priest sank to his knees in prayer - a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service
How To Use supplication In A Sentence
- The monarchs and bierarchs of Bacon's day do appear, but chiefly as recipients of the stream of anxious supplications for preferment Bacon submits throughout his ‘troubled life’.
- No," a man insisted, his hands clasped in supplication ," we never intended to harm you. NAKED EMPIRE
- Supplication, of course, also carries a religious overtone; his plea to Poetry may be secular in name, but it has the cadence of a prayer.
- Every one sprang up, and the students stood on their seats, waved their hats and handkerchiefs, nodded their young heads in their feverish enthusiasm for art, and "encored" with intonations of the most touching supplication. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
- He listened with scant patience to their supplications.
- Then Bulukiya lifted up his voice in supplication to Allah, saying, ‘O Lord, send me thy messenger Gabriel, the Faithful One, to open for me this gate that I may see what be therein;’ and the Almighty gave ear unto his prayer and commanded the Archangel to descend to earth and open to him the gate of the Meeting-place of the Two Seas. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Their superstar nuptials attract acclamation of imponderable scale, the industry falls at their feet in supplication, and the simplest family outing becomes an event of global import.
- And they called them hiketerious thallous, "branches of supplication," or prayer. Pneumatologia
- Councils may be able to make their supplications to the State Government and Parliament but, in the end, they have to comply with the law.
- Her hair, which shone like gold in the increasing light of day, streamed over her shoulders, and her great eyes were astare between terror and supplication. Edison's Conquest of Mars