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supplicate
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  • He was kneeling in front of the tractor with his forehead pressed against the close-set front tires, as if in supplication.†  (source)
  • He let the pain of his body fuel his supplications.†  (source)
  • No supplication was ever more passionate yet more gently carried by the breath.†  (source)
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  • Others stared out at the city with what looked like anger, or surprise, or supplication, or envy.†  (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.
  • 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.
  • When Mariam had seen her, Fariba said, she had asked in a high, supplicating voice, It's normal, isn't it?†  (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)
  • He cursed and supplicated God alternately in his pain and terror.†  (source)
  • Although his words were aggressive, his intonation bordered on the supplicatory.†  (source)
  • Achilles in discontent withdraws himself and his forces from the test of the Greeks; and complaining to Thetis, she supplicates Jupiter to render them sensible of the wrong done to her son, by giving victory to the Trojans.†  (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)
  • That Friday it rained all day—warm, heavy sheets of it, like we were in the tropics, making the guttering gurgle and bowing the stems of the flowering shrubs as if in supplication.†  (source)
  • Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day.†  (source)
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