Supple vs Suppliant - What's the difference?
supple | suppliant |
pliant, flexible, easy to bend
lithe and agile when moving and bending
compliant; yielding to the will of others
* John Locke
To make or become supple.
* Dryden
* Spenser
To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
* John Locke
* Barrow
Entreating with humility.
* Milton
One who pleads or requests earnestly.
* 1963': I touch your beard as a '''suppliant , embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness. — Euripides, ''Medea , trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, p. 39)
As adjectives the difference between supple and suppliant
is that supple is pliant, flexible, easy to bend while suppliant is entreating with humility or suppliant can be , begging, pleading, imploring.As verbs the difference between supple and suppliant
is that supple is to make or become supple while suppliant is .As a noun suppliant is
one who pleads or requests earnestly or suppliant can be supplicant.supple
English
Adjective
(er)- supple''' joints; '''supple fingers
- a supple horse
- If punishment makes not the will supple , it hardens the offender.
Verb
- The stones suppled into softness as they fell.
- The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.
- a mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will
- They should supple our stiff willfulness.
suppliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee