suppliance

¹ American  

[suh-plahy-uhns] / səˈplaɪ əns /

noun

1. the act, method, or process of supplying.

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suppliance ² American  

[suhp-lee-uhns] / ˈsʌp li əns /

noun

1. appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication.

   He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.

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Etymology

Origin of suppliance¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; supply ¹ + -ance

Origin of suppliance²

First recorded in 1605–15; suppli(ant) + -ance

Example Sentences

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suppliance

"At midnight in his guarded tent, The Turk lay dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power."

From Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry by Connor, Ralph

You could see mighty outlines, singly and in groups, of gods and beasts and men, in combat, in suppliance, in death and burial.

From The Legion of Lazarus by Hamilton, Edmond

More maddening still, the man so slighting her, has been making boast of it, proclaiming her suppliance and shame, showing her photograph, exulting in the triumph obtained!

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne

Time had already thinned our chain, Time would have dulled our sense of pain; By service long, and suppliance vile, We might have won our owner's smile.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

Each page is studded with five stars, each as unique as the century-flower, and, like the night-blooming cereus, "the perfume and suppliance of a minute"—ipsa varietate variora.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various