subsistence
noun
the state or fact of subsisting.
self-subsistence
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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
Last in the scale comes matter, which has no self-subsistence, but is the absolute self-negation of God.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
The natural world knows of no complete self-subsistence, for everything is connected with its environment, and it is in this connection with its environment that life below man largely obtains its existence.
From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by W. Tudor (William Tudor) Jones
Its essential significance, its distinguishing note, is that of self-sufficiency or self-subsistence, prescinding entirely from all considerations of limits or their absence.
From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by W. R. Washington Sullivan
But no derived existence can be a self-subsistence.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
