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Topic: RELIGION

Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: , present participle of supplicare 'to supplicate', from supplex; SUPPLE

supplicant

 noun
     
sup‧pli‧cant also suppliant [countable] literary
RR someone who asks for something, especially from someone in a position of power or from God
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