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UKsuppliant
/səplˈaɪənt/
/səplˈaɪənt/
Examples
1. At which point, she sees Orestes passed out on the suppliant's chair, surrounded by the Furies who are all asleep.
2. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this Arm so late Doubted his Empire, that were low indeed, That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall.
3. If you're persuaded by this combination of the Louvre papyrus with the Princeton vase, then we can now add that she got them safely to Eleusis, with the help of their loyal old carer, and that they were protected as suppliants by the city of Athens.
4. Satan finds it ignominious and shameful to lower himself to God, to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee and deify His power, but this kind of submission is shameful not because it's simply always shameful so to debase oneself.
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