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What is another word for supplicants?

Pronunciation: [sˈʌplɪkənts] (IPA)

Supplicants refer to individuals who make a humble request or plea for something they desire. Synonyms for this word include petitioners, beggars, supplicators, suitors, solicitors, and those seeking assistance. These individuals may be seeking help from a higher power, a wealthy benefactor, or an authoritative figure. Some other related synonyms for supplicants include pleaders, aspirants, contenders, claimants, and beseechers. All of these words point to individuals who are asking for something they need, either in desperation or with a level of humility. Overall, synonyms for supplicants emphasize the act of making a request or plea with a sense of urgency or need.
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At the outset ministers feared that the change would meet with resistance in Parliament, but using one's influence to procure favours for others is not a wholly agreeable task, especially when more supplicants are disappointed than gratified.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Such was the aspect of the Master of the Ceremonies in morning costume- the man whose services were sought by every new arrival for introduction to the Assembly Room and to the fashionable society of the day-the man who, by unwritten canons of the fashionable world, must needs be consulted for every important fete or dance, and whose offerings from supplicants-he scorned to call them clients-were supposed to yield him a goodly income, and doubtless would do so, did the season happen to be long, and society at Saltinville in force.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
A second line of fierce supplicants succeeded to the first; and it was plain that, unless some diversion were effected, the respectable quarter of Sicca had found a worse enemy than the locust.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman

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