subsistent
adjective
subsisting, existing, or continuing in existence.
self-subsistent
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a word derived from
subsistent.
Example Sentences
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"The Vaibháshika highly esteems an object concomitant to the cognition; "The Sautrántika allows no external object apprehensible by perception; "The Yogáchára admits only intellect accompanied with forms; "The Mádhyamikas hold mere consciousness self-subsistent.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
Hence “it is evident that wisdom, knowledge and understanding are eternal and self-subsistent things, superior to matter and all sensible beings, and independent upon them”; and so also are moral good and evil.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
But another and more self-subsistent power had taken deep root throughout the Ottoman dominions, and nowhere more than in those provinces which lie between the Save and the Adriatic.
From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by George Arbuthnot
Thank ye His Highness the Incomparable One, that ye have become assisted in the service of the self-subsistent Lord and that ye are making copies of the Tablets of Abdul-Baha, spreading them all around.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
But God is not exhausted in the world, nor dependent upon it: He exists eternally in His Triune Being, self-sufficing, self-subsistent....
From Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Pearson McAdam Muir
