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Antonyms for sustenance

Grammar : Noun
Spell : suhs-tuh-nuh ns
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌs tə nəns

Definition of sustenance

Origin :
  • c.1300, "means of living, subsistence, livelihood," from Old French sustenance (French soutenance), from Late Latin sustinentia "endurance," from Latin sustinens, present participle of sustinere (see sustain). Meaning "action of sustaining life by food" is from late 14c. Sense of "nourishment" is recorded from late 15c.
  • noun necessities for existence
Example sentences :
  • What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • We found a farmer just up, and made him give us sustenance for ourselves and our horses.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope
  • How can I turn to another for the sustenance which you alone can give?
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • He was paying for his own sustenance, and with the first money he had ever earned.
  • Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • I could not tell what sort of sustenance she would look for from my sagacity.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • I respond to you, 'Captain, I cannot refuse, for I am dying for lack of sustenance.
  • Extract from : « A Romance of the West Indies » by Eugne Sue
  • For that matter, the very oil they breed in, gives them sustenance.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
  • The cost of sustenance is unbearable and he makes no money at all.
  • Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
  • It has the power of growth, sustenance and reproduction like plants.
  • Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik
  • There is nothing out of which it will not contrive to get some sustenance.
  • Extract from : « The Guardian Angel » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Synonyms for sustenance

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