Definition of "supplicatory" [sup•pli•ca•to•ry]

• Begging, humbly beseeching, imploring (adjective)

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• "As always, to disarm hostile situations, many make their voices supplicatory and call each other cheri."
• "A major drawback of this arrangement was that business was primarily in a supplicatory position and unable to engage freely in open and forthright public debate about policy issues."
• "The resignation of the MP is compelled by a legally binding "requisition" - not a supplicatory "petition" - which starts with words along these line::"