All 5 Uses
supplicate
in
Wuthering Heights
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- 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!†
p. 60.1
- '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.†
p. 130.2 *
- She earnestly supplicated that I would spare her one or two.†
p. 165.9
- Linton shivered, and glanced at her, half supplicating, half ashamed; but his cousin's patience was not sufficient to endure this enigmatical behaviour.†
p. 193.3
- I ought to have sweat blood then, from the anguish of my yearning — from the fervour of my supplications to have but one glimpse!†
p. 210.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(supplicate) ask humbly (for something)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)