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supplicant

Supplicant (adj) means begging, pleading, supplicating.

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begging, pleading, supplicating
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Etymology

From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).

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"supplicant" (adj) means begging, pleading, supplicating.

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