sustentador

adj.

sustaining.

m.

1 sustainer.

2 supporter, sustainer, upholder.

3 breadwinner.

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= nourisher, sustaining.

Ex. In the end, whether public libraries are allowed to continue in their present depressed state or whether they will become a many-sided embodier and nourisher of a literate society's literacy, depends not on the standards discussed by the professionals, but on those willed by the public.

Ex. And so the reading circle is often broken before the sustaining pleasures of reading are discovered.

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= nourisher, sustaining.

Ex: In the end, whether public libraries are allowed to continue in their present depressed state or whether they will become a many-sided embodier and nourisher of a literate society's literacy, depends not on the standards discussed by the professionals, but on those willed by the public.

Ex: And so the reading circle is often broken before the sustaining pleasures of reading are discovered.