suppliant means entreating with humility; supplicant. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 76 out of 100.
suppliant is pronounced /ˈsʌpliənt/.
Why “suppliant” is a great word
SUPPLIANT — [Adjective/Noun] A posture or attitude of humble, earnest entreaty, or one who adopts it. From Middle French suppliant, the present participle of supplier ("to beseech"), from Latin supplicāre ("to kneel down, beseech, supplicate"). First attested in English in the early 15th century. Unlike "supplicant," which carries a whiff of formal ritual, or "petitioner," which suggests a legal or procedural claim, a suppliant is defined by raw, physical vulnerability. It is the knees pressed into cold stone before a throne, the outstretched, empty hands of a refugee, the bowed head in the rain outside a locked gate—the ancient, wordless grammar of need that precedes either mercy or denial.
adj
- Entreating with humility; supplicant.“to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee”
- Supplying; auxiliary.“your levy Must be suppliant”
noun
- 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.”