What is another word for supplicates?

Pronunciation: [sˈʌplɪkˌe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Supplication is a form of prayer, petition or request to a higher power or authority. There are many synonyms for supplicates, such as implore, beseech, plead, beg, entreat, appeal, solicit, and pray. These words imply a sense of urgency, desperation, and humility, as they seek help or mercy from another. "Implore" emphasizes the speaker's intense desire for relief or assistance, while "plead" suggests a more emotional appeal. "Entreat" and "beseech" both suggest a respectful and sincere request, while "appeal" and "solicit" emphasize an official or legal request. "Pray" can be used in a religious or secular context and implies a plea for divine intervention.

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Usage examples for Supplicates

He assures you all that, in his visits to the Holy Shrines, he remembers you lovingly in his prayers, and supplicates for your guidance and the advancement of your work....
"The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1)"
Shoghi Effendi
Towards their bower Together as they went, With hearts conceiving torrents of content, And linger'd prologue fit for Paradise, He, gathering power From dear persuasion of the dim-lit hour, And doubted sanction of her sparkling eyes, Thus supplicates her conjugal assent, And thus she makes replies: 'Lo, Eve, the Day burns on the snowy height, But here is mellow night!
"The Unknown Eros"
Coventry Patmore
Half of her friends he has bribed, or persuaded, to be of his opinion: the other half stoutly maintain her rationality; and, in fact, she herself is divided in her own opinion as to the case; for she is in the habit of drinking to a most unsentimental excess, and when the fit of intoxication is upon her, she confesses to the charge brought against her-supplicates for mercy and brandy, and totters to bed with the air of a Magdalene; but when she recovers the next morning, the whole scene is changed; she is an injured woman, a persecuted saint, a female Sophocles-declared to be mad only because she is a miracle.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009

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