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

The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

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)

He arose With joy, and stepping to the streamlet near, Scoops up the water in his palms, and bows 19 In suppliance to the Gods, and burdens Heaven with vows.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Peace! shriek not to the bright prophetic god, Who will not brook the suppliance of woe.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

And when by harrowing pang thine heart is wrung, Is't for self-aid thy wandering eyes inquire, Heavenward, at length, in fervid suppliance flung?

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas