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suppliants

suppliants is the plural of suppliant.

Meaning of suppliant

Noun

suppliant (plural suppliants)

  1. One who pleads or requests earnestly.
    • In reuerence therefore of the hopes vvhich the Grecians haue repoſed in you, and of the preſence of Iupiter Olympius, in vvhoſe Temple here, vve are in a manner ſuppliants to you, receiue the Mitylenians into league, and ayde vs.1629, Thucydides, “The First Booke”, in Thomas Hobbes, transl., Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre […], London: […] Hen[ry] Seile, […], →OCLC, page 52

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Questions about suppliants

What is suppliants the plural of?
Suppliants is the plural of suppliant.

Words near suppliants in the dictionary

  1. suppliance
  2. suppliances
  3. suppliancy
  4. suppliant
  5. suppliantly
  6. suppliants
  7. supplicancy
  8. supplicant
  9. supplicantly
  10. supplicants
  11. supplicat

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