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noun

Subvention n.

The act of coming under. "The subvention of a cloud."

The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.

A government aid or bounty.

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Etymology of 'Subvention'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Subvention" Quotes from Famous Books

... Scotch tract. Thus Christian Cellarius, a professor at Louvain, published A Plea for the Right of the Poor to Beg. [Sidenote: 1530] The Spanish monk, Lawrence da Villavicenzio in his Sacred Economy of caring for the Poor, [Sidenote: 1564] condemned the whole plan of state regulation and subvention as heretical. The Council of Trent, also, put itself on the medieval side, and demanded the restoration to the church of ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... with Clement Blaine as something of an event, and I very cheerfully and quite gratuitously contributed an article to his journal dealing with some form of government subvention which I held to be a State duty. (We wasted few words over the duties of the citizen in those days.) It was as a result of that article that I was invited to a Socialist soiree in which the moving spirit, at all events in the refreshment-room, ...

— The Message • Alec John Dawson

... is customary for art to enter by a side door, and the enormous subvention to the Kensington Schools would never have been voted by Parliament if the bill had not been gilt with the usual utility gilding. It was represented that the schools were intended for something much more serious than the mere painting of pictures, which only rich people ...

— Modern Painting • George Moore

Words linked to "Subvention" : provision, supply, subsidy, undertake, guarantee