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Definition of Assistances
1. assistance [n] - See also: assistance
Literary usage of Assistances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... and his pen grew stiff, (as they say that painters, in working up, lose the
spirit of the first draught.) I have heard him complain 0 assistances, ..."
2. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"... would choose Sir Thomas Chichester [brother to Sir Arthur] with six
assistances [assistants] for one year, if it be to his Lordship's [the deputy's] ..."
3. The Nicholas Papers: Correspondence of Sir Edward Nicholas by Sir Edward Nicholas (1886)
"Wales endevouring to seate himself soe as to receive assistances and to bee out
of danger of ... assistances ..."