supplicative

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Tending to supplicate
    — "Supplicative prayer, by contrast, is the more selfish version, in which one prays for rain, to pass an examination, to recover from an illness (or, less selfishly, for someone else to recover from an illness)."

词形变化

more supplicative comparative most supplicative superlative

词源

Etymology tree
English supplicate
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English supplicative
From supplicate + -ive.
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