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Перевод: supplicant

[прилагательное]
умоляющий; просительный;
[существительное]
проситель

Тезаурус:

1. He was both conqueror and supplicant.
2. She wasn't like the other beggars, not quite a supplicant; fairer than the maids and with her head uncovered.
3. Proud yet supplicant, the head held high but the knee bent.
4. This Liverpool evidence - the patronizing condescension and occasional bullying by the middle classes and the supplicant individual contact from the occasional member of the lower stratum - is congruent with the overall profile of class relationships to the police in Britain.
5. Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant, a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year's Eve, but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days' respite, for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them, even though she is herself part of the system.
6. Always, maid or matron, she was the supplicant and her standing varied with her usefulness.
7. The GP became a supplicant.
8. In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant, telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast, and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her.
9. Or: because she is torn between the possibility of embracing his scheme with a lover's abandon, and the more conventional, and differently (maliciously) pleasurable option of destroying him by laughing, finally, after much foreplay, in his foolish supplicant face.
10. The next step would be to offer thanks when there is reason to believe that the "god", or its more mundane forerunner had fulfilled the expectations of the supplicant.
11. Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant, a penitent, someone reaching out for a blessing from God.
12. "Preston, Louis," said William, and he was half bent at the waist, like a supplicant monk, rubbing his hands and smiling, nervously.
13. They sat in silence while the minutes passed, confessor and supplicant, knowing too much and too little.