conservation
noun
the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation.
self-conservation
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a word derived from
conservation.
Example Sentences
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Their natures still tend towards self-conservation and the realization of their end.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
In itself, without a plurality of dispositions and impulses, the soul is originally not a representative force, but first becomes such under certain circumstances, viz., when it is stimulated to self-conservation by other beings.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
Taken separately, they each express the psychic self-conservation.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
This is accordingly the period of direct fashioning through the activity of the formative mechanism implicit in the germ-plasm, also the period of the self-conservation of the formed parts without active functioning.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
