Origin of Maintenance
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From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenere (“to hold in the hand").
From Wiktionary
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Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English maintenaunce from Old French maintenance from maintenir to maintain maintain
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Maintenance Sentence Examples
The most successful feature of Crispis term of office was his strict maintenance of Order and the suppression of Radical and Irredentist agitation.
The house will need scheduled maintenance but will remember when and will ask you for permission.
If she had maintenance, a breach of the marriage tie was adultery.
The maintenance of Roman forms and terms is prominent in fiscal administration.
Cromwell's religious policy included the maintenance of a national church, a policy acceptable to the army but much disliked by the Scots, who wanted the church to control the state, not the state the church.
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