supplication Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service
    invocation.
  2. noun a humble request for help from someone in authority
    plea.
  3. noun the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
    prayer.
    • the priest sank to his knees in prayer

WordNet

Sup`pli*ca"tion noun
Etymology
F. supplication, L. supplicatio.
Definitions
  1. The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.
  2. A humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty.
  3. (Rom. Antiq.) A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods. Syn. -- Entreaty; petition; solicitation; craving.

Webster 1913