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precatory
adj. expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"
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adjuratory
adj. earnestly or solemnly entreating; "in adjuratory terms"
pleading, appealing, imploring, importunate
adj. expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice"
mendicant
adj. practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"
petitionary
adj. of the nature of or expressing a petition; "the petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness"
suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory
adj. humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"
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precative
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