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sustained by her faith
Definition
provide support or necessities
- When I desired their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the use of mine own house; charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.3.3 — Act 3 Scene 3 — A Room in Gloster's Castle (26% in)
sustain = provide support
There are no more uses of "sustain" flagged with this meaning in King Lear.
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- —Ourself, by monthly course, With reservation of an hundred knights, By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode Make with you by due turns.1.1 — Act 1 Scene 1 — A Room of State in King Lear's Palace (42% in)
- What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister: If she sustain him and his hundred knights, When I have show'd th' unfitness,— [Re-enter Oswald.1.4 — Act 1 Scene 4 — A Hall in Albany's Palace (95% in)
- Alack, 'tis he: why, he was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow weeds, With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.4.4 — Act 4 Scene 4 — The French camp. A Tent (23% in)
- ] Friends of my soul, you twain Rule in this realm, and the gor'd state sustain.5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — A field between the two Camps (98% in)
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