subvention/sʌbˈvɛnʃ(ə)n/EtymologyFrom Middle French subvention, from Late Latin subventio, from Latin subvenio (assist).subvention means A subsidy; provision of financial or other support. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 70 out of 100.nounA subsidy; provision of financial or other support.“[…] the said religious shall […] pay all papal impositions, subventions, and contributions […]”The act of coming under.“1744, Thomas Stackhouse, A New History of the Holy Bible, London: Stephen Austen, 2nd edition, Volume 2, Book 6, Chapter 2, p. 845, Now the only Ascension that we read of, besides these, is that of our blessed Saviour; and the Manner, in which he is said to have been carry’d up, was, by the Subvention of a Cloud, which rais’d him from the Ground […]”The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.“[…] if we pray to God to remove a lesser judgement by way of subvention, questionlesse we may beseech him to deliver us from the great evill of a wounded conscience, by way of prevention.”verbTo subsidise.“His task was, it is true, made easier by the need of the English to remove troops to put down the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising, which the French had subventioned.”