supplications
Earnest humble petitions
Supplications are humble, earnest requests or prayers, typically addressed to someone in authority or to a deity.
The word carries a tone of pleading or beseeching—asking not from a position of power but of need: The king ignored the supplications of his starving subjects.
In religious contexts, supplications are prayers asking for divine help or mercy.
Earnest, humble requests
- appealsRequests for reconsideration
- petitionsFormal requests for action
- requestsFormal expressions of want
- beggingEarnest desperate requesting
imploring · beseeching · solicitations · pleadings · importunities · adjurations · exhortations · urgings
Deep, loyal commitment
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- petitionFormal written appeal
blessing · litany · rosary · novena · vespers · matins · benediction · salat
Gentle, unassertive disposition
- deferenceYielding to another's judgment
- submissivenessDisposition to obey others
- prostrationUtter physical or mental depletion
- kneelingLowering onto bent legs
bowing · genuflection · lowliness · self-abasement · contriteness · penitence · obeisance · modesty
entreaties
Earnest, humble requests
- appealsRequests for reconsideration
- petitionsFormal requests for action
- requestsFormal expressions of want
begging · imploring · beseeching · solicitations · pleadings · importunities · adjurations · exhortations · urgings · cries
devotion
Deep, loyal commitment
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
petition · blessing · litany · rosary · novena · vespers · matins · benediction · salat · namaz
meekness
Gentle, unassertive disposition
- deferenceYielding to another's judgment
- submissivenessDisposition to obey others
- prostrationUtter physical or mental depletion
kneeling · bowing · genuflection · lowliness · self-abasement · contriteness · penitence · obeisance · modesty · reverence
anguish
Intense mental suffering
intensity · frantic · dire · heartrending · crisis · grievous · desperate · sorrowful · woeful · plaintive
- pleasplea, pleas, please, prayers, entreaty
- Biblical Englishthou, thee, thy, thine, ye
- Islamic StudiesQuran, hadith, Islamic law, Sunnah, madrasa
- Christian prayerLord's Prayer, Our Father, amen, contemplative prayer, intercession
- prayersOur Father, morning prayers, Lord's Prayer, daily prayers, evening prayers
- liturgical prayersLord's Prayer, collects, litanies, litany, intercessions
supplicationsgrants
Awarded funds for purposes
bestowals · dispensations · bequests · endowments · gifts
supplicationsdefiance
Open resistance to authority
refusals · rejections · denials · rebuffs · dismissals