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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They could be self-subsistent economically, and invulnerable to outside attack, independent of commerce, and so strong as to be indifferent to progress.
From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell
Hence for Plato the ideas are not the attributes of a mind, but that self-subsistent truth to which, in its moments of insight, a mind may have access.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
These Hands will gird up their loins to champion the Faith of God, and will, in My name the self-subsistent, the mighty, subdue the peoples and kindreds of the earth.
From The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh by Shoghi Effendi
Before 1870 different parts of the small continent of Europe had specialized in their own products; but, taken as a whole, it was substantially self-subsistent.
From The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
Ah me, that a man be self-subsistent, original, true, or what we call it, is surely the farthest in the world from indisposing him to reverence and believe other men’s truth!
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
