The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sustention
Sustention \Sus*ten"tion\, n. Sustentation. [R. or Colloq.]
In fine images, in sustention, in irony, they surpass
anything that Burke ever wrote.
--J. Morley.
Wiktionary
sustention
n. sustentation
Usage examples of "sustention".
Her mind pummelled him, but she was unable to free herself from the humiliating sustention, or to undermine his coercion with her own.