suppliance.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

suppliance (uncountable)

1. supplication; entreaty
   • 1827, Fitz-Greene Halleck, "Marco Bozzaris", in Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

     When Greece her knee in suppliance bent

語源 2

From supply.

名詞

suppliance (複数形 suppliances)

1. That which supplies a want; assistance; a gratification; satisfaction.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     he perfume and suppliance of a minute

   • 1867, Richard Chenevix Trench, Studies in the Gospels (page 98)

     All human suppliances for the satisfying of the cravings of the body or of the soul have in them this defect, that they do not satisfy for ever. They only serve to dull and deaden the present sense of the want, but do not remove it.