▪ I. suppliance1 Now rare.
(səˈplaɪəns)
[f. supply v.1 + -ance; cf. suppliant a.2]
= supply n.
| 1598 Chapman Iliad iv. [viii.] 321 When he..lookt vp for helpe to heauen, Which euer at command of Ioue, was by my suppliance geuen. 1604 Shakes. Ham. i. iii. 9 (Qo.), A Violet in the youth of Primy Nature;..sweet not lasting The perfume and suppliance of a minute. 1664 Power Exper. Philos. 118 In suppliance of that seeming Vacuity. 1786 A. Seward Lett. (1811) I. 160 To leave something to the suppliance of the heart and the fancy. 1845 Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. i. v. 95 What a man wins by his labour, be it inward truth, or only some outward suppliance of his need. 1884 Browning Ferishtah, The Sun 160 To lack is not to gain Our lack's suppliance. |
▪ II. suppliance2 rare. poet.
(ˈsʌplɪəns)
[f. suppliant a.1: see -ance.]
The action of a suppliant; supplication.
| c 1611 Chapman Iliad xviii. 402 Mightie suppliance, By all their graue men hath bene made. 1615 ― Odyss. vi. 211 If..He should..trie with words of grace, In humblest suppliance, if he might..gaine Her grace. 1773 J. Ross Fratricide i. 4 (MS.) Smile on the suppliance of an humbler Bard. 1873 W. S. Mayo Never Again xii, The Kaiser smiled, then lifts his child From suppliance at his knee. |
So ˈsuppliancy, the condition of a suppliant.
| 1837 Fraser's Mag. XVI. 588 The living image of abject suppliancy! |