manutenency

English

Etymology

From Latin manus (“hand”) + tenere (“to hold”).

Noun

manutenency (usually uncountable, plural manutenencies)

1. (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.

References

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