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A '''Supplicant''', one who [[supplication|supplicates]], is a term applied to humble petitioners, and in particular to [[University of Oxford]] students who have qualified for but not yet been admitted into their degree.
 
At both [[Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], students are presented during the degree ceremony with a form of words that begins with the [[Latin]] verb "supplicant". The Cambridge text is: