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English
Noun
supportation (uncountable)
- (obsolete) maintenance, aid or support
c. 1459, John Falstof, letter:your right good grace to continue your noble favour and supportation to me in remedying the force done by Sir Philip Wentworth
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:I shall you make relacyon
By way of apostrofacyon
Under supportacyon
Of your pacyent tolleracyon,
c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of Compositions for Alienations:the supportation of the king's expence
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