sustention
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As a result, the terrain peak would move away from its position of coincidence with the time peak on successive dates, producing first, perhaps, a sustention of peak and later a definitely bimodal curve.
From A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 by George H. Lowery.
Without thy help, recruit, support, Opitulation, furtherance, Assistance, rescue, aid, resort, Favour, sustention and advance?
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
I merely confess that to celebrate these rites so frequently requires a sustention of enthusiasm which is beyond me.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
Accuracy, verisimilitude, sustention, count for nothing in comparison with imaginative adroitness and variety.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
Being in derogation of natural right, it was peculiarly dependent upon artificial sustention; the South would not express the condition in this language, but acted upon the idea none the less.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
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