supplicate
Plead on knees
To supplicate is to ask humbly and earnestly, often with an element of begging or pleading.
The word carries religious overtones—one supplicates before God or a powerful authority: The prisoners supplicated the king for mercy.
A supplicant kneels, literally or figuratively, acknowledging their inferior position while making a request.
Urge with desperation
- beseechPlead urgently with someone
- pleadAsk urgently or formally
- petitionFormal written appeal
- prayAddress a deity
invoke · adjure · solicit · appeal · beg · request · entreat · importune
Address to deity
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- pietySincere religious devotion
- venerationProfound admiring respect
adoration · faith · holiness · spirituality · altar · pilgrimage · liturgy · sanctity
Intense mental suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- despairTotal absence of hope
hopelessness · crisis · neediness · suffering · woeful · forlorn · abject · stricken
Gentle, unassertive disposition
- deferenceYielding to another's judgment
- submissivenessDisposition to obey others
- lowlinessState of modest rank
- prostrationUtter physical or mental depletion
kneeling · bowing · obeisance · self-abasement · modesty · docility · servility · contrition
implore
Urge with desperation
pray · invoke · adjure · solicit · appeal · beg · request · entreat · importune · urge
prayer
Address to deity
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- pietySincere religious devotion
veneration · adoration · faith · holiness · spirituality · altar · pilgrimage · liturgy · sanctity · devotee
anguish
Intense mental suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
despair · hopelessness · crisis · neediness · suffering · woeful · forlorn · abject · stricken · fervor
meekness
Gentle, unassertive disposition
- deferenceYielding to another's judgment
- submissivenessDisposition to obey others
- lowlinessState of modest rank
prostration · kneeling · bowing · obeisance · self-abasement · modesty · docility · servility · contrition · penitent
- Sacred Languageamen, hallelujah, alleluia, hosanna, holy
- venerationvenerate, revere, reverence, glorify, exalt
- worship verbspray, bless, anoint, baptize, consecrate
- persuasionpersuade, persuasion, persuasive, convince, convincing
- wantingwant, desire, crave, yearn, long
supplication, supplicant, supplicating, supplicants, supplications, supplicated, supplicates