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Sustainment

noun
1.
The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence.  Synonyms: maintenance, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep.  "Fishing was their main sustainment"






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"Sustainment" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the great spring of excitement, is over; but, generally speaking, it will be found, notwithstanding the proverb, that with persons of a noble nature, the straitened fortunes which they share together, and manage, and mitigate by mutual forbearance, are more conducive to the sustainment of a high-toned and romantic passion, ...
— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli

... adds, "this failure, like that which indicates, in the aged, the era of second childishness and mere oblivion, does not extend to the things of the past, but is confined to events that are passing. On old memories the mind retains its power; on new ones it requires constant prompting and sustainment." ...
— Grappling with the Monster • T. S. Arthur

... and look up to the Father's throne; and I would pluck peace, as green herbs from active benevolence and contemplative adoration. Yes; love can save from the sterility of selfishness, and from the death of despair: but love alone. No other talisman has the power; pride, self-sustainment, coldness, pleasure, nothing—nothing—but that divine word of ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424, New Series, February 14, 1852 • Various



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