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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "supplicatory" in a sentence

    supplicatory example sentences

    supplicatory


    1. Lorry, in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: "pray control your agitation--a matter of business


    2. [Epic poetry, focused on the third person, strongly involves the referential function of language; the lyric, oriented toward the first person, is intimately linked with the emotive function; poetry of the second person is imbued with the conative function and is either supplicatory or exhortative, depending on whether the first person is subordinated to the second one or the second to the first


    3. I saw that her face was confused and supplicatory… It was a very unusual sort of face for her


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    Synonyms for "supplicatory"

    suppliant supplicant supplicatory

    "supplicatory" definitions

    humbly entreating