Definition of Suppletions

1. suppletion [n] - See also: suppletion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppletions

supplementary angles
supplementary benefit
supplementation
supplementations
supplemented
supplementer
supplementers
supplementing
supplements
suppleness
supplenesses
suppler
supples
supplest
suppletion
suppletions (current term)
suppletive
suppletively
suppletories
suppletory
suppli
suppli al telefono
supplial
supplials
suppliance
suppliances
suppliant
suppliantly
suppliants
supplicancy

Literary usage of Suppletions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The formation of Christendom by Thomas William Allies (1865)
"The knights themselves, the rich middle class, suffer from the same cause. They are hardly kept up by continual suppletions from 0 Bellinger, ..."

2. Travels in Various Countries of the East: Being a Continuation of Memoirs by Robert Walpole (1820)
"... at Rome, who proposed corrections and suppletions of some parts of them. His conjectures are inserted wherever they occur. LIANAPA. L.4. ..."

3. Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan by Michigan (1850)
"An act to amend sections one and two of, and suppletions one, three, four, six, thirteen, seventeen and nineteen of an act entitled an act to incorporate ..."

4. The formation of Christendom by Thomas William Allies (1865)
"The knights themselves, the rich middle class, suffer from the same cause. They are hardly kept up by continual suppletions from 0 Bellinger, ..."

5. Travels in Various Countries of the East: Being a Continuation of Memoirs by Robert Walpole (1820)
"... at Rome, who proposed corrections and suppletions of some parts of them. His conjectures are inserted wherever they occur. LIANAPA. L.4. ..."

6. Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan by Michigan (1850)
"An act to amend sections one and two of, and suppletions one, three, four, six, thirteen, seventeen and nineteen of an act entitled an act to incorporate ..."

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