supplicant

/ˈsʌpləkənt/

Other forms: supplicants; supplicantly

If you pray every night to be accepted to your dream college, you can call yourself a supplicant, or a person who asks humbly for something.

A supplicant can be a fervently religious person who prays to God for help with a problem, and it can also be someone who begs earnestly for something he or she wants. A younger brother entreating his sister to be allowed in her tree house could be described as a supplicant. The Latin root word is supplicantem, "plead humbly."

Definitions of supplicant

1. noun

   someone who prays to God
   synonyms: prayer

   types:

   beadsman, bedesman

   a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another

   type of:

   religious person

   a person who manifests devotion to a deity
2. noun

   one praying humbly for something
   synonyms: petitioner, requester, suppliant

   types:

   besieger

   an energetic petitioner

   postulant

   one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order

   canvasser, solicitor

   a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes

   fundraiser

   someone who solicits financial contributions

   type of:

   applicant, applier

   a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission
3. adjective

   humbly entreating
   synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory

   beseeching, imploring, pleading

   begging