All 5 Uses of
supplicate
in
Wuthering Heights
- And on their behalf he added that night a special prayer to the usual quarter-of-an-hour's supplication before meat, and would have tacked another to the end of the grace, had not his young mistress broken in upon him with a hurried command that he must run down the road, and, wherever Heathcliff had rambled, find and make him re-enter directly!†
Chpt 9
- 'He shook me till my teeth rattled, and pitched me beside Joseph, who steadily concluded his supplications, and then rose, vowing he would set off for the Grange directly.†
Chpt 17 *
- She earnestly supplicated that I would spare her one or two.†
Chpt 21
- Linton shivered, and glanced at her, half supplicating, half ashamed; but his cousin's patience was not sufficient to endure this enigmatical behaviour.†
Chpt 27
- I ought to have sweat blood then, from the anguish of my yearning — from the fervour of my supplications to have but one glimpse!†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(supplicate) ask humbly (for something)