Supplicancy

Sup´pli`can`cy


n.1.Supplication.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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In our view, such a discourse reduces Aboriginal people to the status of petitioning supplicants.lBZ It may well be, as Cairns suggests, that such a strategy is a response to the "catastrophic" impact of "present trends of unemployment, social exclusion and anomic conditions." (183) However, if supplicancy is what Cairns perceives as "the middle ground," (184) then Canada's constitutional morality must be truly impoverished.
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