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

To enlist his offices in behalf of         their cherished dying leader, the oldest medicine-man, by virtue         of seniority, ordered a sacrifice to be made as an offering         of adoration and suppliance.

From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Henry Inman

Blest is that hour when breeze of poesy From far the ancient fragrance wafts to me; This time thrice blest, because it came unsought, "Sweet suppliance," and dear, because unbought.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

In his heart surrender and suppliance, and before him always the necessity of silence until he could come again, and he must go that he might come again.

From The Man in Lonely Land by Kate Langley Bosher

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 Mayne Reid

The colonel had brushed it aside with rough hand and sharp word; the major had come penitent and in suppliance.

From The Rustler of Wind River by George W. (George Washington) Ogden