Synonyms for supplication
sup·pli·ca·tion

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1. invocation, supplicationnoun

   a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service

   Synonyms:
   plea, prayer, conjuration, invocation, conjuring, conjury

2. supplication, pleanoun

   a humble request for help from someone in authority

   Synonyms:
   plea, prayer, invocation

3. prayer, supplicationnoun

   the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)

   "the priest sank to his knees in prayer"

   Synonyms:
   entreaty, orison, prayer, supplicant, invocation, plea, appeal, petition

Matched Categories

1. • Prayer
   • Worship

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1. supplicationnoun

   Synonyms:
   entreaty, petition, solicitation, prayer, invocation, orison

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1. Rashid Omar:

   My main goal is -- apart from fulfilling the fifth pillar of Islam( Saudi Arabia The Hajj) -- is the supplication, the duaa' that this act of violence and act of terrorism will never happen again anywhere to anybody, it's very painful as a family of the deceased, to have a loved one gone. It doesn't matter what race or religion we are. We suffer the same.

2. Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916):

   [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.