Devoid vs Unsupplied - What's the difference?
devoid | unsupplied | Related terms |
empty; having none of; completely without
Not supplied.
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, passage=The whole number of blacks receiving religious instruction from these Christian bodies, making allowance for the proportion of white and colored included in the three thousand Wesleyans, is about twenty-two thousand--leaving a population of eight thousand negroes in Antigua who are unsupplied with religious instruction. }}
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, passage=So long as this want is unsupplied , and the juvenile offender is contaminated by contact with the hardened criminal, the statesmen and those who control the legislatures of both countries, dishonor their profession of Christianity. }}
Devoid is a related term of unsupplied.
As adjectives the difference between devoid and unsupplied
is that devoid is empty; having none of; completely without while unsupplied is not supplied.As a verb devoid
is (obsolete) to empty out; to remove.devoid
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Adjective
(-)- I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon.
Derived terms
* devoidnessAnagrams
*unsupplied
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