supportment
English
Etymology
support + -ment
Noun
supportment (plural supportments)
- (obsolete) support
- a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter to Edmund Bacon
- the Cardinal his uncle, who would first have illegitimated him, and that not taking effect by the supportment of Spain, he fell to other Roman Arts
- a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter to Edmund Bacon
References
- supportment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913