Meaning of Subvention | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of coming under.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
   archaic, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] the said religious shall […] pay⟳ all papal impositions, subventions, and contributions […]”

“[…] the Crown-Prince, contrary to wont, broke silence, and begged some dole or subvention for these poor people; but there was nothing to be had.”

“Inside its skirts he carried his shopping for Miss⟳ Dubber: the bacon from Mr. Aitken, only mind⟳ and tell⟳ him he's to cut⟳ it on number⟳ five, give⟳ him half a chance he'll make⟳ it thicker. And tell⟳ that Mr. Crosse three of his tomatoes were rotten last⟳ week, not just bad, rotten. If I don't have⟳ replacements I'll never go to him again. Pym had followed her instructions to the letter, though not with the ferocity she would have⟳ wished, for both Crosse and Aitken were recipients of his secret subventions, and for years had been sending Miss⟳ Dubber bills for only half what she had spent.”

“1744, Thomas Stackhouse, A New History of the Holy Bible, London: Stephen Austen, 2nd edition, Volume 2, Book 6, Chapter 2, p. 845, Now the only Ascension that we read⟳ of, besides these, is that of our blessed Saviour; and the Manner, in which he is said to have⟳ been carry’d up, was, by the Subvention of a Cloud, which rais’d him from the Ground […]”

“[…] if we pray to God to remove⟳ a lesser judgement by way of subvention, questionlesse we may beseech him to deliver⟳ us from the great evill of a wounded conscience, by way of prevention.”

“A small body of negroes defied the choicest troops of one of the greatest nations in the world, kept an extensive country in alarm, and were at length brought to surrender⟳, only by means of a subvention still more extraordinary than their own⟳ mode of warfare.”

“Let⟳ the young critics, who seek⟳ a cheap reputation for austerity, by cavilling at “incidental music,” set⟳ their faces rather against the attempt⟳ to justify⟳ inferior dramatic art by the subvention of a quite alien art like⟳ painting, of any art, indeed, whose sphere is only surface.”

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