Usually means: Humble and earnest request, plea.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word supplication:

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  1. supplication: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. supplication: Merriam-Webster
  3. supplication: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. supplication: Collins English Dictionary
  5. supplication: Vocabulary.com
  6. Supplication, supplication: Wordnik
  7. supplication: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. supplication: Wiktionary
  9. supplication: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. supplication: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. supplication: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. supplication: Dictionary.com
  13. supplication: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Supplication: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Supplication: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. supplication: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. supplication: Rhymezone
  18. Supplication: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. supplication: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. supplication: FreeDictionary.org
  21. supplication: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. supplication: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Supplication: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. supplication: Legal dictionary

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  1. supplication: Encyclopedia

(Note: See supplicate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (supplication)

noun:  An act of supplicating; a humble request.
noun:  A prayer or entreaty to a god.
noun:  (historical) In Ancient Rome, a solemn service or day decreed for giving formal thanks to the gods for victory, etc.
noun:  The process by which a doctorate at Oxford university is officially requested after a thesis has been approved.

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