Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stopping; a stay; a halt.
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Examples
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The troubling potential of this ex-sistence or il y à (later elaborated by Emmanuel Levinas) is in effect veiled in the language of spirit, as the past is figured as a
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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The sugar is of a dark colour and greasy sistence, with a peculiar flavour.
North Coast Culture tellurian 2008
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The sugar is of a dark colour and greasy sistence, with a peculiar flavour.
Archive 2008-08-01 tellurian 2008
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In a way, we are faced here with something like yet another reworking of the Husserlian analysis of temporality, and of the tension retention-protension that characterizes it: with the significant difference that time is no longer so much constituted for and by a consciousness, or even by an ex-sistence, as it is temporalized from out of the twofold horizon of the event of being.
Archive 2007-05-01 enowning 2007
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In a way, we are faced here with something like yet another reworking of the Husserlian analysis of temporality, and of the tension retention-protension that characterizes it: with the significant difference that time is no longer so much constituted for and by a consciousness, or even by an ex-sistence, as it is temporalized from out of the twofold horizon of the event of being.
enowning enowning 2007
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She resented his in - sistence on trying to control matters when he himself had no inten - tion of being involved in the expedition.
Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000
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The per - sistence of the pleasure-pain principle in biology, psy - chology, and the social sciences has allowed these disciplines to employ the physical analogies of the association of ideas without abandoning qualitative concepts based on the subjective world of experience.
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS ROBERT M. YOUNG 1968
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But more important than such dispositions are those sets of cir - cumstances which may favor the emergence or per - sistence of dichotomies.
CLASS LEWIS A. COSER 1968
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A fear that is not fear, a pain that has not pain's in - sistence;
The Sisters' Tragedy with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic 1891
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I am mistaken, if, for the animal sub-sistence of the troops hitherto, we are not principally indebted to the genius and exertions of Hawkins, during the very short time he lived after his appointment to that department, by your board.
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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