sustentative

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But they are equally earnestly jazzed about the project—moved by the contestants’ creativity and skills and eager to promote the idea that making things, while increasingly rare, has never been more sustentative.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2018

The sustentative factor has acquired particular prominence in the human species, since Malthus wrote his essay on population—that essay which both Darwin and Wallace confess was the starting point of their discovery of natural selection.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

These causes may be conveniently divided as in the above diagram, into sustentative and non-sustentative.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul