SUPPLIANT meaning: Seeker of help or favor

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▸ adjective:  Entreating with humility; supplicant.
▸ adjective:  Supplying; auxiliary.
▸ noun:  One who pleads or requests earnestly.

Opposite:

refusing, resistant, unyielding, uncooperative

Types:

beggar, mendicant, panhandler, pleader, supplicant, more...

Adjectives:

humble, poor, royal, fair, little, prostrate, wretched, needy, miserable, helpless, expectant

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