supportance

supportance

(səˈpɔːtəns) or

supporture

n
obsolete words for support
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The Queen and her Ladies conceal themselves for the first part of the scene in the "shadow of these trees" (3.4.28-29); moreover, the Gardener tells his Man to "bind thou up young dangling apricokes" and "Give some supportance to the bending twigs" (3.4.35).
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