adv. [f. SUPPLIANT a.1 + -LY2.] In a suppliant manner, or as a suppliant; in the way of supplication; beseechingly.
1565. Stapleton, trans. Bede’s Hist. Ch. Eng., 158. Entreating as suppliantly as I could to have licence to galloppe my horse … with the other younge men.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1637), 255. His brother John … came in … and suppliantly besought Richard, brotherly to pardon his … offences.
1750. Student, I. 139. Can [he] … not prostrate himself … before the throne of grace, and suppliantly implore the divine mercy for his … sins?
1842. G. S. Faber, Prov. Lett. (1844), I. 230. Suppliantly invocating the saints.
1895. Daily News, 10 May, 6/3. Two hundred members of the House of Commons called at his private house in Connaught-place, suppliantly to ascertain how they stood with him in whom they recognised the fresh depository of power and dispenser of patronage.
