alimentation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Borrowed from French alimentation.

This divergence is shown, first, in the method of alimentation. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri
But even English diet, which in comparison with German, and indeed with French alimentation, seems to me to constitute a "return to Nature,"--that is to say, to cannibalism,--is profoundly opposed to my own instincts. — Ecce Homo: Complete Works, Volume Seventeen, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Queen Whims after this said to her gentlemen: The orifice of the ventricle, that ordinary embassador for the alimentation of all members, whether superior or inferior, importunes us to restore, by the apposition of idoneous sustenance, what was dissipated by the internal calidity’s action on the radical humidity. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, victuals

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