Both Uses
supplicate
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- The learned prelate who administered the last comforts of holy religion to the hero martyr when about to pay the death penalty knelt in a most christian spirit in a pool of rainwater, his cassock above his hoary head, and offered up to the throne of grace fervent prayers of supplication.†
Chpt 12
- And still the voices sang in supplication to the Virgin most powerful, Virgin most merciful.†
Chpt 13 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(supplicate) ask humbly (for something)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)