sustention

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

sustentions

1.
(countable, uncountable)sustentation

Nguồn gốc từ

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