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supplicating, ppl. a.|ˈsʌplɪkeɪtɪŋ|
[f. supplicate v. + -ing2.]
That supplicates, or expresses supplication; humbly petitioning or entreating.
1649Milton Eikon. iv. Wks. 1851 III. 362 As for that supplicating People they did no hurt either to Law or Authority. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. i, I then put myself into the most supplicating postures, and spoke in the humblest accent. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xvi, ‘Do not leave me,’ said she, in accents the most supplicating. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiv. (1861) V. 177 A request made..in earnest and almost supplicating terms. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 72 She would not have listened..to a silly supplicating girl.
Hence ˈsupplicatingly adv.
1865Meredith Rhoda Fleming xliv, Rhoda..turned her eyes supplicatingly on Robert. 1884Goldsmid Wright's Pol. Songs ii. 45 Song of Lewes, Those whose aid he will ask supplicatingly. |