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suppliance
2[ suhp-lee-uhns ]
noun
- appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication:
He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
And with arms still raised in suppliance for his great unselfish soul, he sprang out backward to the darkening sea.
"It will make in all three thousand francs," said the old man, smiling agreeably, but folding his hands in instinctive suppliance.
“When Greece her knees in suppliance bent,” when he stuck there.
The beggar made his plea and, with a dirty palm outstretched, waited in patient suppliance.
The happy suppliance of Theobald, universally adopted with the change of his for to so.
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