sup pliantness (supliantnes)

The quality of being suppliant. Bailey. supplicancy (sup'li-kan-si), n. [ supplicating; supplication. Imp. Dict. supplicant (sup'li-kant), a. and n. [ L.suppli can ( t- )s, ppr. of supplicare, beseech, supplicate: see supplicate.] 1. a. Entreating; imploring; asking humbly. [They] offered to this council their letters supplicant, confe ing that they had sinned. Bp. Bull , Corruptions of Church of Rome. II. n. One who supplicates or humbly entreats; a humble petitioner; a suppliant. The prince and people of Nineveh a embling themselves as a main army of supplicants , it was not in the power of God to withstand them. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 24. All his determinations are delivered with a beautiful humility; and he pronounces his decisions with the air of one who is more frequently a supplicant than a judge. Steele, Tatler, No. 211. supplicantly (sup'li-kant-li), adv. In a supplicating manner.