manutenency
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin manus (“hand”) + tenere (“to hold”).
Noun edit
manutenency (usually uncountable, plural manutenencies)
- (obsolete) maintenance
- 1666, William Sancroft, Lex Ignea: or, the School of Righteousness:
- Mercy first, that God spar'd us, and preserv'd us so long. For without his Divine Manutenency, our strongest Fabrics had fallen immediately upon their very Builders.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “manutenency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)