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a suppliant.
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Supplicant
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin supplicant- (stem of supplicāns), present participle of supplicāre to supplicate; see -ant; doublet of suppliant
1590–1600; < Latin supplicant- (stem of supplicāns), present participle of supplicāre to supplicate; see -ant; doublet of suppliant
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Example Sentences
- But having one helps you make the mental move from supplicant to peer.
- Indubitably, and therefore a supplicant for generosity.
- Bush sold himself in part on the strength of his personal journey from sinner to supplicant.
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Word Origin & History
supplicant
1597, from L. supplicantem (nom. supplicans), prp. of supplicare "plead humbly" (see supplication).
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