(v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
(v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
(v. t.) To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) People praying, voicing their views and heart, were met with disdain and a level of force exceeding what was needed.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child praying at the vigil site for Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
(3) I am being prayed for in the woods of northern California!
(4) When he had those Aids I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him.” Sterling said he admired Johnson, 53, as a “good” man, then contradicted himself.
(5) "I've been praying and praying to Papa," Nan cried, "but it feels like He isn't listening."
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Muslims pray at the Al Khalil mosque in Molenbeek.
(7) She comes to church with me; she doesn’t pray in the way I do, but she listens.
(8) They will whip you if you don’t pray.” In Damascus there is a new industry of “facilitators” who offer advice to Syrians who want to get out.
(9) A few metres away, Francisco-Javier Muñoz, a lawyer originally from Spain, was praying.
(10) Since the allegations became public, fans have taken to holding up homemade signs at Florida State games: "We Support Famous Jameis", "Jameis is Innocent," and "In Jameis Christ We Pray".
(11) New Afghan national police officers pray during their graduation ceremony.
(12) The NYPD's demographics unit assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed.
(13) I squeezed my eyes shut and prayed for an electromagnetic storm that would cancel out every mistake I'd ever made.'
(14) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
(15) The Palestinians see this as Jewish encroachment on the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, while Jewish activists like Glick say they are being discriminated against by limiting their chances to pray atop the mount.
(16) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(17) It stands 25km north of Damascus, near the ancient Saydnaya monastery where Christians and Muslims have prayed together for centuries.
(18) My mother prays for me,” said Betancourt, a Honduran.
(19) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A woman prays in front of the Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Tokyo, a memorial for the victims of the atomic bombings in 1945.
Supplicate
Definition:
(v. t.) To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.
(v. t.) To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant; as, to supplicate the Deity.
(v. i.) To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then suddenly a horrible drought comes along, and they can’t figure out why they can’t supplicate their gods adequately to prevent it.” It didn’t help that Tikal’s water management system had become increasingly reliant on collecting rainwater in reservoirs, at the cost of groundwater.
(2) In those times the few humans who passed that way came as supplicants, filled with a sense of awe and magic.
(3) She added: “It makes you wonder: what does Putin have on Trump that could make Trump act like a supplicant on the international stage?
(4) And my mind turned again to Michael Gove , who, to put their relationship in terms of Gove’s beloved Dennis Wheatley, is the supplicant Simon Aron to Boris’s satanic Mocata, their joint prize the mummified phallus of Conservative party power.
(5) Young people are reduced to being supplicants,” he says.
(6) With minimal media interest, the US African Command (Africom) has deployed troops to 35 African countries, establishing a familiar network of authoritarian supplicants eager for bribes and armaments.
(7) Supplicant states don’t probe too deeply into delicacies, such as where profits are actually earned, and then set out what it is deemed reasonable for a corporate to pay in so-called “letters of comfort”.
(8) So Daniel Blake is not a supplicant, he’s a man of dignity.” First thing in the morning, I feel about 85.
(9) Unfavourable factors for long-term course were: low intellectual capacity (W), hysteroid personality (C), syntonic personality (W), asthenic personality, sensitivity to praise (C), tendency to feel under observation (W), and some symptoms during the index period: tendency to seclusion (C), ideas of reference (C), dryness of mouth (C), difficulty in falling asleep (C), dreamlike feeling (C), supplicating attitude (C).
(10) I deliberately used archaic language for the chorus: "banish" rather than "drive out" and "we pray thee", a supplication not in the original.
(11) If this chancellor has a vision, it’s one of Britain supplicating before authoritarian regimes while our high-technology renewables industry goes to the wall.” A spokesman for the prime minister declined to elaborate on why the Saudi trip cost so much more than other overseas trips.
(12) Villagers scramble towards the aircraft, arms aloft in supplication and eyes scrunched against the tornado whipped up by the rotor blades.
(13) Andreotti, who had interceded on behalf of endless supplicants like a true padrino (godfather), did not use his power to pursue personal wealth or to enhance the prospects of his closest relatives.
(14) We're like sovereign and supplicant, but Perlman, at once bearish and boyish, remains a plain-spoken kid from the northern end of Manhattan, not anxious to lord it up or sound too clever.
(15) And that switch from buyer to seller, from potentate to supplicant, is notoriously difficult.
(16) A trio of musicians - accordion, bajo sexto and double bass - drift in and launch into one of the many corridos written about the narco-saint - another offering from a grateful supplicant.
(17) Couples go out for dinner and spend the entire time with their heads bent in silent supplication to the glowing god.
(18) It looks to outsiders as if Ireland has received only a lukewarm embrace from its EU partners, who have chosen to send a message to other would-be supplicants that it's better to stay away.
(19) Yet, consider the mainstream supplication that welcomed the Wikileaks editorial.
(20) What degree of transparency and accountability can we, as supplicants, enforce on our new partner?