subvention

noun /sʌbˈvɛnʃ(ə)n/

1. A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.

   countable, uncountable

   […] the said religious shall […] pay all papal impositions, subventions, and contributions […]

2. The act of coming under.

   countable, obsolete, uncountable

   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 […]

   1744, Thomas Stackhouse, A New History of the Holy Bible, London: Stephen Austen, 2nd edition, Volume 2, Book 6, Chapter 2, p. 845,

3. The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.

   archaic, countable, uncountable

   […] 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.

Where it comes from

From Middle French subvention, from Late Latin subventio, from Latin subvenio (assist).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry subvention (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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