supplicant
used in A Prayer for Owen Meany

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Definition

someone who prays to God;
or: one praying humbly for something;
or: humbly entreating

There was virtually no position I could find for the armadillo that did not make the creature resemble a supplicant—not to mention, a wretched amputee.
p. 88.9

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