suppliance

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noun

supplication; entreaty

Scrabble 16

Meanings

suppliance1

nounsuppliance (uncountable)
  1. uncountablesupplication; entreaty

    When Greece her knee in suppliance bent

    1827, Fitz-Greene Halleck, “Marco Bozzaris”, in Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

suppliance2

nounsuppliance (plural suppliances)

plural suppliances

  1. That which supplies a want; assistance; a gratification; satisfaction.

    he perfume and suppliance of a minute

    c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]
    1 more example

    All human suppliances for the satisfying of the cravings of the body or of the soul have in them this defect, that they do not satisfy for ever. They only serve to dull and deaden the present sense of the want, but do not remove it.

    1867, Richard Chenevix Trench, Studies in the Gospels, page 98

Origin

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Chicago

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