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Subsistence

//səbˈsɪstəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Real being; existence. countable, uncountable

    "the human nature loseth its proper subsistence , and is assumed into the subsistence of the divine nature"

  2. 2
    minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the state of existing in reality; having substance wordnet
  5. 5
    Inherency. countable, uncountable

    "the subsistence of qualities in bodies"

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  1. 6
    a means of surviving wordnet
  2. 7
    Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive. countable, uncountable

    "In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will."

  3. 8
    Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English subsistence; partly from Middle French subsistence (modern French subsistance) and partly from its etymon Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistēns, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). Perhaps also partly from subsist + -ence.

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