supplication

How To Use supplication In A Sentence

• However, this dreadful purpose was prevented, partly by the interposition of his wife, whose aim was not the death but immurement of his daughter, and partly by the tears and supplication of the young gentlewoman herself, who protested, that, although the ceremony of the church had not been performed, she was contracted to Fathom by the most solemn vows, to witness which he invoked all the saints in heaven. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
• The monarchs and bierarchs of Bacon's day do appear, but chiefly as recipients of the stream of anxious supplications for preferment Bacon submits throughout his ‘troubled life’.
• The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.
• Flattery, cajolement, humble supplication and the finer maneuvers of tact, all have this in mind. The Foundations of Personality
• 15Kwere and Zaramo placement of the umbilical cord at the * mkole tree, which is associated with the matriliny and fertility in a widespread range of Ruvu languages and was also the place where religio-ritual offerings were presented to ancestors as supplication for bringing life into the community. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
• Soon, to the whispered supplication of, `Shantih, go to sleep! THE BROKEN GOD
• Aside from ‘The District School’ and the ingenious ‘Supplication to the People of the United States,’ which makes a supplementary chapter in the present volume, the author's works in this twelvemo are mild, contemplative essays of no particular value.
• The term prayer (euche) used at Nicæa, has in this connection always been taken in its strict signification as meaning supplication The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• Politely and with some measure of supplication but plain as day.
• The women's defiant attitude was the greatest surprise to the authorities who expected tears, supplications and general weakness.