Definitions
Supporting, maintaining, or keeping something going.
Used in a sentence
“Beginnings are very different from sustainings; the irregular, often violent, and improvised actions of the founder hero must be succeeded by the regular election of leaders according to law.”
“[…] eternall life, the end of all our wearisome labours, and all our sustaining hopes.”
“Sometimes, I had proceeded restlessly from place to place, stopping nowhere; sometimes, I had lingered long in one spot. I had had no purpose, no sustaining soul within me, anywhere.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Support role”10 letters
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