N-COUNT (向上帝或重要人物请求的)祈求者，恳求者，哀求者 A supplicant is a person who prays to God or respectfully asks an important person to help them or to give them something that they want very much. (向上帝或重要人物请求的)祈求者，恳求者，哀求者 [formal]
He flung himself down in the flat submissive posture of a mere supplicant.