sustention
Americannoun
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the act of sustaining.
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the state or quality of being sustained.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of sustention
1865–70; susten- ( see sustain) + -tion, modeled on detain: detention, retain: retention
Example Sentences
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I merely confess that to celebrate these rites so frequently requires a sustention of enthusiasm which is beyond me.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
Without thy help, recruit, support, Opitulation, furtherance, Assistance, rescue, aid, resort, Favour, sustention and advance?
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Accuracy, verisimilitude, sustention, count for nothing in comparison with imaginative adroitness and variety.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
Being in derogation of natural right, it was peculiarly dependent upon artificial sustention; the South would not express the condition in this language, but acted upon the idea none the less.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
Without thy help, recruit, support, Opitulation, furtherance, Assistance, rescue, aid, resort, Favour, sustention and advance?
From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
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