English edit

Etymology edit

From client +‎ -ly. Compare clientlike.

Adjective edit

cliently (comparative more cliently, superlative most cliently)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling a client; clientlike.
    • 2004, Christopher Williams, Cultivated Reason: An Essay on Hume and Humeanism, page 120:
      Thus, while we enjoy an enhancement of our stature owing to our cliently affiliation with the colossus, our new servility shows that the cost of empire is high.
    • 2014, A. D. Cousins, Shakespeare's Sonnets & Narrative Poems:
      Yet from his cliently prudence follow many imprudences.

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