supplicant
supplicant 英 [ˈsʌplɪkənt] 美 [ˈsʌplɪkənt]
n. 恳求者，乞求者
名词复数:supplicants
- If you pray every night to be accepted to your dream college, you can call yourself a supplicant, or a person who asks humbly for something.
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- n. 恳求者，乞求者
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1. They are capable of slamming the door in a supplicant's face, cutting him off in midsentence.
他们能够在一个恳求者面前把门砰然关上，把他们才说到一半的话猛然截断。
- supplicant (adj.) 1590s, from Latin supplicantem (nominative supplicans), present participle of supplicare "plead humbly" (see supplication). As a noun from 1590s, "a humble petitioner."
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