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名詞

sustaining (plural sustainings)

1. The process by which something is sustained or upheld.
   • 2012, Alan Ryan, On Politics:

     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.

形容詞

sustaining (comparative more sustaining, superlative most sustaining)

1. That sustains, supports or provides sustenance.
   • 1641, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy‎, London: Thomas Underhill, page 24:

     […] eternall life, the end of all our wearisome labours, and all our sustaining hopes.

   • 1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 31, p. 21,

     I turned quick to look for him, and saw him coming towards me, with another gentleman—But I saw no more, my senses forsook me; in spite of Maria’s sustaining arm, I fell motionless on the ground.

   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 58, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1929, Josephine Tey, chapter 1, in The Man in the Queue‎, New York: Pocket Book, published 1977, page 5:

     They laughed and chattered, and passed each other sustaining bits of chocolate in torn silver paper.

   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:

     […] I was thirsty & went to sit in the shade of the tea-terrace. The tea, served impractically in a glass, was refreshing, somehow muddy & more sustaining than tea I am used to.

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