supportation

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noun

maintenance, aid or support

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Meanings

nounsupportation (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablemaintenance, aid or support

    the supportation of the king's expence

    c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations
    2 more examples

    your right good grace to continue your noble favour and supportation to me in remedying the force done by Sir Philip Wentworth

    c. 1459, John Falstof, letter

    I shall you make relacyon By way of apostrofacyon Under supportacyon Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]

    c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–32
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