sustention meaning

noun
  The act of sustaining

Examples

1. At times they specifically identify hard-line syndicalist groups as genuine architects of the plot, quoting claims made by Falangists or ex-Falangists themselves and identifying Jos� Luis Arrese as " el inventor " of Carlos VIII . In few works historians representing such perspective note that neither the invention nor the sustention theory has been proven yet, though that they were widely believed to have been correct at the time.