subventions

Noun

subvention (countable and uncountable, plural subventions)

1. A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
   • […] the said religious shall […] pay all papal impositions, subventions, and contributions […]1758, John Burton, Monasticon Eboracense and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, York, page 230
2. (obsolete) The act of coming under.
   • Now the only Ascension that we read of, besides these, is that of our blessed Saviour; and the Manner, in which he is said to have been carry’d up, was, by the Subvention of a Cloud, which rais’d him from the Ground […]1744, Thomas Stackhouse, A New History of the Holy Bible, London: Stephen Austen, 2nd edition, Volume 2, Book 6, Chapter 2, p. 845
3. (archaic) The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
   • […] if we pray to God to remove a lesser judgement by way of subvention, questionlesse we may beseech him to deliver us from the great evill of a wounded conscience, by way of prevention.1647, Thomas Fuller, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience, London: John Williams, Dialogue 21, pages 157–158

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