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suppletory

[ suhp-li-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. supplying a deficiency.


suppletory

/ -trɪ; ˈsʌplɪtərɪ /

adjective

  1. archaic.
    remedying deficiencies; supplementary
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ²õ³Ü±è±è±ô±ð³Ù´Ç°ù¾±±ô²â, adverb
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • ²õ³Ü±èp±ô±ð·³Ù´Çr¾±Â·±ô²â adverb
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of suppletory1

1620–30; < Late Latin ²õ³Ü±è±è±ôŧ³ÙÅ°ù¾±³Ü²õ, equivalent to ²õ³Ü±è±è±ôŧ ( re ) ( suppletion ) + -³ÙÅ°ù¾±³Ü²õ -tory 1
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Example Sentences

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Adj. added &c. v.; additional; supplemental, supplementary; suppletory†, subjunctive; adjectitious†, adscititious†, ascititious†; additive, extra, accessory.

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Take not offence at the lack of all such suppletory arts and stratagems in thy servant, said poor Wet-eyes. 

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‘Our hearts are so deceitful in the matter of repentance,’ says Jeremy Taylor, ‘that the masters of the spiritual life are fain to invent suppletory arts and stratagems to secure the duty.’

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Say that to-night as you look around on the grievous famine of the suppletory arts and stratagems of repentance and reformation in your heathenish bedroom.

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Will you not, then, make it the beginning of some of the suppletory arts and stratagems of the spiritual life with yourselves? 

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