sustentation

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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so all things appertaining to the sustentation of man, in triple and more exceeded their accustomed prices.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various

The problem is,—To find an Ultimate Ground, a Final Cause, which shall be adequate to account for the existence and sustentation of this Universe.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.

The presence of God in his world was thus to be evinced by his regular sustentation of its natural order, rather than by irregular occurrences, such as the deluge, in seeming contravention of it.

From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris

It would seem that the system by which he maintained them was that he assigned to each a region of which the inhabitants were responsible for its manning and its sustentation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various