suppletory

suppletory

(ˈsʌplɪtərɪ; -trɪ)
adj
archaic remedying deficiencies; supplementary
ˈsuppletorily adv
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sup•ple•to•ry

(ˈsʌp lɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i)

adj.
supplying a deficiency.
[1620–30; < Late Latin supplētōrius=supplē(re) + -tōrius -tory1]
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Norris never wavers from this view, returning to it one hundred pages later: "I look upon Grace as the Suppletory of corrupt Nature, and a Remedy against Original Sin, and a Counterpoise to the weight of that evil Concupiscence which dwells in us, and so to bear date since the fall, as being the Purchase and Procurement of the Mediatour" (162).