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supplicatory

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ADJECTIVE
  1. humbly entreating
    a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness

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  • In speaking to them, however, they always used the most abject language, and the most humble tone and posture – "Please your honour, – and please your honour's honour," they knew must be repeated as a charm at the beginning and end of every equivocating, exculpatory, or supplicatory sentence – and they were much more alert in doffing their caps to these new men, than to those of what they call good old families. Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
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