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supplicate
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  • I am no stoic at all to be supplicating here; but I do supplicate to you.†  (source)
  • Too proud to supplicate or seek explanation, he threw himself at once into a whirl of fashionable society, and in a fortnight from the time of the fatal letter was the accepted lover of the reigning belle of the season; and as soon as arrangements could be made, he became the husband of a fine figure, a pair of bright dark eyes, and a hundred thousand dollars; and, of course, everybody thought him a happy fellow.†  (source)
  • It was no use for me to entreat, supplicate, get angry, or do anything else in the way of opposition; it would only have been opposing a will harder than the granite rock.†  (source)
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  • Muscle testing, she explained to me, was a kind of prayer, a divine supplication.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • She was tired; her head leaned now on her hands as if in sleep, and she reached out for him, supplicating.†  (source)
  • He couldn't read Ancient Greek, but he guessed they were prayers or supplications to the dead, written by pilgrims thousands of years ago.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
  • I would have no mercy, Mr. Rochester, if you supplicated for it with an eye like that.†  (source)
  • it is not a cardinal who could have fortified the populace with a word against her tears and prayers, when the Maid of Flanders came to supplicate her people in their behalf, even at the very foot of the scaffold;†  (source)
  • Although his words were aggressive, his intonation bordered on the supplicatory.†  (source)
  • Bracketed to the wall was a small shelf holding a plaster statue of the blue-robed Virgin Mary with her hands held out supplicatingly.†  (source)
  • O come forth, Come forth, my son; thy father supplicates.†  (source)
  • Others stared out at the city with what looked like anger, or surprise, or supplication, or envy.†  (source)
  • She looked at me in a drained and supplicating way.†  (source)
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