Now rare. [f. SUPPLY v.1 + -ANCE; cf. SUPPLIANT a.2] = SUPPLY sb.
1598. Chapman, Iliad, IV. [VIII.] 321. When he … lookt vp for helpe to heauen, Which euer at command of Ioue, was by my suppliance geuen.
1604. Shaks., Ham., I. iii. 9 (Qo.). A Violet in the youth of Primy Nature;… sweet not lasting The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., 118. In suppliance of that seeming Vacuity.
1786. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), I. 160. To leave something to the suppliance of the heart and the fancy.
1845. Trench, Huls. Lect., Ser. I. v. 95. What a man wins by his labour, be it inward truth, or only some outward suppliance of his need.
1884. Browning, Ferishtah, The Sun, 160. To lack is not to gain Our lack’s suppliance.
