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supplyant

supplyant is the obsolete spelling of suppliant.

Meaning of suppliant

Adjective

suppliant (comparative more suppliant, superlative most suppliant)

  1. Entreating with humility; supplicant.
    • to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. Supplying; auxiliary.
    • your levy Must be suppliant1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

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Forms of supplyant

comparativemore supplyant
superlativemost supplyant

Questions about supplyant

What is supplyant the obsolete spelling of?
Supplyant is the obsolete spelling of suppliant.

Words near supplyant in the dictionary

  1. supply vessels
  2. supply-side
  3. supply-side economics
  4. supply-sider
  5. supply-siders
  6. supplyant
  7. supplying
  8. supplying up
  9. supplyment
  10. supplyments
  11. supplì

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supplyant (page history and authors); suppliant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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