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supplicative

supplicative adjective: tending to supplicate.

Adjective

supplicative (comparative more supplicative, superlative most supplicative)

  1. Tending to supplicate
    • "Supplicative prayer, by contrast, is the more selfish version, in which one prays for rain, to pass an examination, to recover from an illness (or, less selfishly, for someone else to recover from an illness)."2003, Susan Leddy, Integrative Health Promotion: Conceptual Bases for Nursing Practice, page 432

Forms of supplicative

comparativemore supplicative
superlativemost supplicative

Origin of supplicative

From supplicate + -ive.

Questions about supplicative

What does supplicative mean?
Supplicative means tending to supplicate.
What part of speech is supplicative?
Supplicative is an adjective.

Words near supplicative in the dictionary

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

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