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• a person making a humble or earnest plea to someone in power or authority.

Similar: petitioner, pleader, beseecher, supplicant, beggar, appellant, suitor, applicant, claimant,

• making or expressing a plea, especially to someone in power or authority.

• "their faces were wary and suppliant"

Similar: pleading, begging, beseeching, imploring, entreating, supplicating, craving, on bended knee,

Origin: late Middle English (as a noun): from French, ‘beseeching’, present participle of supplier, from Latin supplicare (see supplicate).