English Explanatory Dictionary

sustention

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. sustentation

Word forms

sustention sustentions

Etymology

First attested in 1868: a nominalisation of sustain, by analogy with detain → detention, retain → retention, etc., coined for contradistinction with sustentation.

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