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supplicants

supplicants is the plural of supplicant.

Meaning of supplicant

Noun

supplicant (plural supplicants)

  1. one who comes to humbly ask or petition
    • It recalled all the vivid hopes and beliefs of her childhood, when she was wont to kneel before some lovely image, till the face seemed to smile encouragement, and the little supplicant felt as if beneath a mother's eye.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 185
  2. A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.

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Questions about supplicants

What is supplicants the plural of?
Supplicants is the plural of supplicant.

Words near supplicants in the dictionary

  1. suppliantly
  2. suppliants
  3. supplicancy
  4. supplicant
  5. supplicantly
  6. supplicants
  7. supplicat
  8. supplicate
  9. supplicated
  10. supplicatedst
  11. supplicates

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