Word Meanings - SUPPLICATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing supplication; humble; earnest.

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• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• EARNEST
  Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.
• SUPPLICATION
  A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods. Syn. -- Entreaty; petition; solicitation; craving. (more info) 1. The act of supplicating; humble
• EARNESTLY
  In an earnest manner.
• HUMBLER
  One who, or that which, humbles some one.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• HUMBLE
  humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking
• HUMBLEHEAD
  Humble condition or estate; humility. Chaucer.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• HUMBLEBEE
  The bumblebee. Shak. (more info) hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh. akin to hum. sq.
• EARNESTNESS
  The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.
• EARNESTFUL
  Serious. Chaucer.
• HUMBLES
  Entrails of a deer. Johnson.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• HUMBLENESS
  The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.
• HUMBLESSE
  Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. Chaucer. Spenser.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• OVEREARNEST
  Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.