How do you pronounce suppliant?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsʌpliənt/.

suppliant

/ˈsʌpliənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

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"to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee"
"Some plaques formed part of a mosaic that covered human life with its varied scenes of peace and war. Here we have warriors, the Cretan erect, and his darker-skinned enemy prostrate and suppliant."
"Oedipus, King of my country, you can see our ages who are before your door; some it may be too young for such a journey, and some too old, Priests of Zeus such as I, and these chosen young men; while the rest of the people crowd the market-places with their suppliant branches, for the city stumbles towards death, hardly able to raise up its head"
"your levy Must be suppliant"
"In reuerence therefore of the hopes vvhich the Grecians haue repoſed in you, and of the preſence of Iupiter Olympius, in vvhoſe Temple here, vve are in a manner ſuppliants to you, receiue the Mitylenians into league, and ayde vs."
"[K]naves in office, partial in the vvork / Of diſtribution; lib'ral of their aid / To clam'rous importunity in rags, / But oft-times deaf to ſuppliants vvho vvould bluſh / To vvear a tatter'd garb hovvever coarſe, / VVhom famine cannot reconcile to filth; […]"

From French suppliant, present participle of supplier. Doublet of supplicant.

more suppliant (comparative) most suppliant (superlative) suppliants (plural)

suppliance suppliantly supplicant supplicate supplicatingly supplication supplicator supplicatory