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supportation

supportation noun: maintenance, aid or support.

Noun

supportation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) maintenance, aid or support
    • your right good grace to continue your noble favour and supportation to me in remedying the force done by Sir Philip Wentworthc. 1459, John Falstof, letter
    • I shall you make relacyon
      By way of apostrofacyon
      Under supportacyon
      Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–32

Questions about supportation

What does supportation mean?
Supportation means maintenance, aid or support.
What part of speech is supportation?
Supportation is a noun.

Words near supportation in the dictionary

  1. supportability
  2. supportable
  3. supportableness
  4. supportably
  5. supportance
  6. supportation
  7. supported
  8. supportedly
  9. supportedst
  10. supporter
  11. supporters

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