Sample sentences for SUPPLICATE

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Definition

ask humbly (for something);
or: make a humble, earnest petition;
or: ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer

He supplicated the King for forgiveness

supplicated = asked humbly

Sire, we supplicate you, with clasped hands and bended knees, as a divinity is supplicated
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Man in the Iron Mask
supplicate for permission
His face gave again, round the room, its convulsed supplication.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw

(editor's note: 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.)

Now I supplicate you, Richard, to whom I belong, and whom I wish to honour and obey, as I vowed, to let me in.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
As hard as I willed it, I could not draw up anything to follow: no formal supplication, no Bible verse, no scrap of liturgy.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders

Blaze leaned forward and rested her elbows on her knees, her forearms stretched out as if in supplication.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song

He laid his hand upon it, and it clasped him with a trembling supplication.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit

Her arms went up in a desperate supplication for a minute.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

O come forth, Come forth, my son; thy father supplicates.
Sophocles -- Antigone
We simply wanted to remind you of the possibility and renew our perpetual supplication for mercy and divine protection.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light

She fell forward on her knees, head down, hands raised in supplication.
Stephen King -- Carrie

Then came interviews, mysterious conversations, exhortations, entreaties, supplications, even tears—would you believe it, even tears?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

(editor's note: 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.)

He couldn't read Ancient Greek, but he guessed they were prayers or supplications to the dead, written by pilgrims thousands of years ago.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades

And the monster laughed so loudly and hideously that we could no longer distinguish Christine's supplicating cries!
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
'There is no retreat,' said Nicholas, in an agony of supplication; 'no withdrawing!
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

In the churches there were more supplications than carols.
Albert Camus -- The Plague

She runs to me, grabbing my arm in supplication.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall

He spreads his hands in supplication.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants

He went on saying brokenly to himself, "She has supplicated to me in her time; and now her tongue won't own me nor her eyes see me!
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

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