Sup"pli*cant (?), a. [L. supplicans, p.pr. See Supplicate, and cf. Suppliant.]

Entreating; asking submissively.

Shak. -- Sup"pli*cant*ly, adv.

 

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Sup"pli*cant, n.

One who supplicates; a suppliant.

The wise supplicant . . . left the event to God. Rogers.

 

© Webster 1913.

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