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Definition of Suppliantness

Suppliantness
Suppliant Sup"pli*ant, a. [F., p. pr. of supplier to entreat, L. supplicare. See Supplicate, and cf. Supplicant.] 1. Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. --Dryden. 2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. --Milton. Syn: Entreating; beseeching; suing; begging; supplicating; imploring. -- Sup"pli*ant*ly, adv. -- Sup"pli*ant*ness, n.

Meaning of Suppliantness from wikipedia

- Look up suppliant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Suppliants may refer to: The Suppliants (Aeschylus) by Aeschylus, an ancient Gr**** play where...
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- Identification: the suppliant performs conventional gestures or words in order to identify himself. 3. Request: the suppliant states what his request...
- to him have survived intact: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, the trilogy known as The Oresteia (the three tragedies Agamemnon, The...
- and unlawful evil affecting suppliants, for the Spartans killed the Helots who had fled into Tainaron and were suppliants in the temple of Poseidon. Cape...
- prominently in the poetry of Pindar, and is a main character in Euripides' The Suppliants. His story was told by Diodorus Siculus, Hyginus, Statius, and Apollodorus...