self-subsistence
- a word derived from subsistence.
Example Sentences
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Quilombos were formed over centuries by enslaved people who escaped forced labor to create isolated, self-subsistence communities in remote forests and mountain ranges or on islands like Ilha de Mare.
From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2022
He aims at a pure self-subsistence, and a free development of any powers with which they may be gifted by nature as much for them as for men.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret
Such a nature will never become absolutely certain of the meaning and value of all that has led up to this until the One obtains a self-subsistence.
From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by Jones, W. Tudor (William Tudor)
Every child should learn some trade or profession in order to self-subsistence and to the prosperity and well-being of the state.
From The Christian Home by Philips, Samuel
Abstractedly from, and independently of, all sensible substances, and the bodies, wills, faculties, and affections of men, has the Devil, or would the Devil have, a personal self-subsistence?
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
