Definition of "supplicating" []

• Present participle of supplicate. (verb)

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• "And so, in this great extremity, the only duty which pressed upon her was the idea of supplicating the saints to take charge of her unhappy affairs."
• "The fact that many of these organizations 'action items failed to include basic duties such as supplicating to Allah for our oppressed brethren is a side issue - but it shows the extent to which Muslims have bought into the' work with the system 'mentality."
• "It was true that one, a little German, had gone broke and was himself forlornly back-tripping the last pack of the portage; but the other two had boats nearly completed and were daily supplicating the god of merchants and traders to stay the iron hand of winter for just another day."