How do you use Supplicate in a sentence? See 2 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like beg or implore, plus the exact meaning.
Supplicate in a sentence
Supplicate meaning
- To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
- Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to make a formal request (to the university) that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
Using Supplicate
- The main meaning on this page is: To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat. | To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat. | Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to make a formal request (to the university) that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
- Useful related words include: beg, implore, pray, petition.
- In the example corpus, supplicate often appears in combinations such as: to supplicate.
Context around Supplicate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 35.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Supplicate
- In this selection, "supplicate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 35.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, appropriately stand out and add context to how "supplicate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include earnestly to supplicate you not and me to supplicate appropriately and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "supplicate" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with supplicate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I praise him when he guides me to supplicate appropriately and hoping for reward, and I praise him for not making it a calamity in my religion. (27 words)
And now, O Lord, what remains to a wretch like me, but instead of defence, earnestly to supplicate you not to judge that fearful abandonment of your Word according to its deserts, from which in your wondrous goodness you have at last delivered me. (44 words)
And now, O Lord, what remains to a wretch like me, but instead of defence, earnestly to supplicate you not to judge that fearful abandonment of your Word according to its deserts, from which in your wondrous goodness you have at last delivered me. (44 words)
I praise him when he guides me to supplicate appropriately and hoping for reward, and I praise him for not making it a calamity in my religion. (27 words)
Example sentences (2)
I praise him when he guides me to supplicate appropriately and hoping for reward, and I praise him for not making it a calamity in my religion.
And now, O Lord, what remains to a wretch like me, but instead of defence, earnestly to supplicate you not to judge that fearful abandonment of your Word according to its deserts, from which in your wondrous goodness you have at last delivered me.
Common combinations with supplicate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to supplicate 2×