Suppliant vs. Supplicant

Suppliantadjective

Entreating with humility.

Suppliantadjective

Supplying; auxiliary.

Suppliantnoun

One who pleads or requests earnestly.

Suppliantadjective

Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating.

Suppliantadjective

Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication.

Suppliantnoun

One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.

Suppliantnoun

one praying humbly for something;

Suppliantadjective

humbly entreating;

Supplicantadjective

begging, pleading, supplicating

Supplicantnoun

one who comes to humbly ask or petition

Supplicantnoun

(networking) A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.

Supplicantadjective

Entreating; asking submissively.

Supplicantnoun

One who supplicates; a suppliant.

Supplicantnoun

someone who prays to God

Supplicantnoun

one praying humbly for something;

Supplicantadjective

humbly entreating;

Supplicant

A Supplicant, one who supplicates, is a term applied to humble petitioners, and in particular to University of Oxford students who have qualified but not yet been admitted into their degree. At both Oxford and Cambridge, students are presented during the degree ceremony with a form of words that begins with the Latin verb .