Subsister

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who subsists.

    "a race of disobedient children, a progeny of beggars, a nation of bare subsisters on the soil"

  2. 2
    one who lives through affliction wordnet

Example

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"a race of disobedient children, a progeny of beggars, a nation of bare subsisters on the soil"

Etymology

From subsist + -er.

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