supplicative
English
editEtymology
editFrom supplicate + -ive.
Adjective
editsupplicative (comparative more supplicative, superlative most supplicative)
- Tending to supplicate
- 2003, Susan Leddy, Integrative Health Promotion: Conceptual Bases for Nursing Practice, page 432:
- "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)."