Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
subsistence .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Subsistence.
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- noun Archaic form of
subsistence .
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Examples
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A person that has historically known agriculture for survival wont fit anywhere into this argument, especially if it only for subsistency.
Ethics and IQ, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls, — a good way to continue their memories, while having the advantage of plural successions, they could not but act something remarkable in such variety of beings, and enjoying the fame of their passed selves, make accumulation of glory unto their last durations.
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There is none of the social goods that may not be purchased too dear, and mere amiableness must not take rank with high aims and self-subsistency.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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Lynch-law prevails only where there is greater hardihood and self-subsistency in the leaders.
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A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls, -- a good way to continue their memories, while having the advantage of plural successions they could not but act something remarkable in such variety of beings, and, enjoying the fame of their passed selves, make accumulation of glory unto their last durations.
The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Stephen Coleridge 1895
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A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls -- a good way to continue their memories, while having the advantage of plural successions, they could not but act something remarkable in such variety of beings, and enjoying the fame of their passed selves, make accumulation of glory unto their last durations.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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And none can be offended with the self-subsistency of one so catholic and jocund.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls; a good way to continue their memories, while, having the advantage of plural successions, they could not but act something remarkable in such variety of beings, and enjoying the fame of their passed selves, making accumulation of glory unto their last durations.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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There is none of the social goods that may not be purchased too dear, and mere amiableness must not take rank with high aims and self-subsistency.
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` Lynch-law 'prevails only where there is greater hardihood and self-subsistency in the leaders.
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