All 3 Uses of
supplicate
in
Anna Karenina
- She talked on, not knowing what her lips were uttering, and not taking her supplicating and caressing eyes off him.†
Part 1 *
- Levin knew all this; and it was agonizingly painful to him to behold the supplicating, hopeful eyes and the emaciated wrist, lifted with difficulty, making the sign of the cross on the tense brow, and the prominent shoulders and hollow, gasping chest, which one could not feel consistent with the life the sick man was praying for.†
Part 5
- "My feeling cannot change, you know, but I beg you, I entreat you," he said again in French, with a note of tender supplication in his voice, but with coldness in his eyes.†
Part 5
Definition:
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(supplicate) ask humbly (for something)