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Supplyant vs Suppliant - What's the difference?

supplyant | suppliant |

As adjectives the difference between supplyant and suppliant

is that supplyant is (obsolete) supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory while suppliant is entreating with humility or suppliant can be , begging, pleading, imploring.

As a noun suppliant is

one who pleads or requests earnestly or suppliant can be supplicant.

As a verb suppliant is

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supplyant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (obsolete) supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory
  • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

    suppliant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Entreating with humility.
  • * Milton
  • to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)
  • Synonyms

    * beseecher, petitioner, supplicant