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Supplying a deficiency.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Take not offence at the lack of all such suppletory arts and stratagems in thy servant, said poor Wet-eyes.
  • SAVIOUR shall be applied to us, -- namely, obedience; and where obedience has failed, then, as suppletory to it, repentance.
  • Will you not, then, make it the beginning of some of the suppletory arts and stratagems of the spiritual life with yourselves?
  • 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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