supplicative

English

Etymology

supplicate +‎ -ive

Adjective

supplicative (comparative more supplicative, superlative most supplicative)

1. Tending to supplicate
   • 2003, Susan Leddy, Integrative Health Promotion: Conceptual Bases for Nursing Practice, page 432:

     "Supplicative prayer, by contrast, is the more selfish version, in which one prays for rain, to pass an examination, to recover from an illness (or, less selfishly, for someone else to recover from an illness)."