Meanings
plural supportments
- obsoletesupport
a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter to Edmund Bacon the Cardinal his uncle, who would first have illegitimated him, and that not taking effect by the supportment of Spain, he fell to other Roman Arts
Origin
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