James Meredith

I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always seemed to me that they behaved like meek and gentle supplicants begging the oppressor for a few crumbs of justice, for a few molecules of citizenship rights.

American Celebrity

Jon Lovett

I am very glad that Paul Ryan left the government as a capitulating supplicant to Donald Trump while the government was shut down, while the debt hit record levels, right? Every single thing Paul Ryan claimed to care about.

American Producer

Martin Jacques

The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.

British Journalist

Use 'supplicant' when someone is asking respectfully, showing humility or reverence to someone in power.

Respectful Request

'Supplicant' doesn't only apply to religious contexts; it can be used in various situations where help is sought.

Not Always Religious

The term often implies a clear distinction in power between the supplicant and who they are appealing to.

Power Dynamics

In religious context, 'supplicant' is used for someone urgently asking God for help, often out of desperation.

Urgent Prayer

'Supplicant' in religion often refers to someone with a specific request or in need of a particular blessing.

Specific Petitions

Understanding how supplicants appeared in historical religious texts can give insight into its deeper meanings.

Historical Context

 you can't not use them. Once you have this knowledge, you can't un-know it. You can't delete this data from your brain, but you can delete the cliched image of supplicant, impoverished peoples not taking control of their own lives. You can erase that, you really can,

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 Supplicants asked the Muses to keep watch over academics and grant ingenuity to those they deemed worthy. The temples were filled with offerings of sculptures, mosaics, complex scientific apparatuses, poetic and literary inscriptions,