supplication
- n a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service
- n a humble request for help from someone in authority
- n the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
- At the moment of the Agnus Dei, with its supplication to the Lamb of God, "who takest away the sins of the world," to give him peace, the dying one inclined his head as a token .
- At Tenerife, this death posture, common in burn cases, looked like a gesture of supplication.
- Mama San laughs, flattered by the display of supplication.