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supplicant

/suhp-li-kuhnt/US // ˈsʌp lɪ kənt //UK // (ˈsʌplɪkənt) //

求助者,求助人,请求者,祈求者

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : supplicating.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a suppliant.

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Examples

  • Another supplicant wanted a piece of the lottery winnings to get her driveway paved.

  • The idea that Facebook should be a supplicant to anybody is absurd.

  • Be this as it may, no supplicant—friend, acquaintance or stranger—was allowed to gain access to the President.

  • My guardian threw his supplicant off with supreme indifference, and left him dancing on the pavement as if it were red hot.

  • The eye of God is now upon him, and He can minister to the supplicant.

  • These evils I deserve, yet despair not of his final pardon whose ear is ever open, and his eye gracious to readmit the supplicant.

  • There were tears, too, in the blue eyes of Kate as she took the little supplicant in her arms.