conserve
verb (used with object)
to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of.
self-conserving
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a word derived from
conserve.
Example Sentences
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Struggle and aliency are at end, and whatever activity now goes on feels self-conserving, spontaneous, free.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
And there is nothing more moral than the collective egoism, the self-conserving instinct, of nations.—Prof.
From Gems (?) of German Thought by William Archer
