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Webster 1913 Edition


Sustenance

Sus′te-nance

,
Noun.
[OF.
sustenance
,
sostenance
,
soustenance
: cf. L.
sustenentia
endurance. See
Sustain
.]
1.
The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence;
as, the
sustenance
of the body; the
sustenance
of life
.
2.
That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living;
as, the city has ample
sustenance
.
“A man of little sustenance.”
Chaucer.
For lying is thy
sustenance
, thy food.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sustenance

SUS'TENANCE

, n.
1.
Support; maintenance; subsistence; as the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.
2.
That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions. This city has ample sustenance.

Definition 2024


sustenance

sustenance

English

Noun

sustenance (countable and uncountable, plural sustenances)

  1. Something that provides support or nourishment.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
      More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

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