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supplications

supplications is the plural of supplication.

Meaning of supplication

Noun

supplication (countable and uncountable, plural supplications)

  1. An act of supplicating; a humble request.
    • If Trump defies the Court, there is little to restrain him from acting as an autocrat, given the supplication of Republicans in Congress.2025 April 10, Adam Serwer, “The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2025
    1. du'a', minor or private prayer performed individually.
  2. A prayer or entreaty to a god.
  3. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a solemn service or day decreed for giving formal thanks to the gods for victory, etc.
  4. The process by which a doctorate at Oxford university is officially requested after a thesis has been approved.

Questions about supplications

What is supplications the plural of?
Supplications is the plural of supplication.

Words near supplications in the dictionary

  1. supplicatingly
  2. supplication
  3. supplicational
  4. supplicationer
  5. supplicationers
  6. supplications
  7. supplicative
  8. supplicator
  9. supplicators
  10. supplicatory
  11. supplicats

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