supportment

English

Etymology

support +‎ -ment

Noun

supportment (plural supportments)

1. (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

References

• “supportment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.