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supportment

supportment noun: support.

Noun

supportment (plural supportments)

  1. (obsolete) support
    • a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter to Edmund Bacon
      the Cardinal his uncle, who would first have illegitimated him, and that not taking effect by the supportment of Spain, he fell to other Roman Arts

Forms of supportment

pluralsupportments

Origin of supportment

From support + -ment.

Questions about supportment

What does supportment mean?
Supportment means support.
What part of speech is supportment?
Supportment is a noun.
What is the plural of supportment?
The plural of supportment is supportments.

Words near supportment in the dictionary

  1. supportiveness
  2. supportless
  3. supportlessly
  4. supportlessness
  5. supportlink
  6. supportment
  7. supportments
  8. supportress
  9. supportresses
  10. supports
  11. suppos'd

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