subsist
verb (used without object)
to exist; continue in existence.
self-subsisting
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a word derived from
subsist.
Example Sentences
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We shall have restored the self-subsisting quality of the simpler economy while still retaining the enormously added efficiencies made available through technological and organizational development.
From Time Magazine Archive
For example, if we form a conception of Divinity as a living, almighty, self-subsisting, eternal Being, this is only a concept apprehended by a human intellectual reality.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
This was clearly verified, it was demonstrated to those of every persuasion who came into the presence of the living, the self-subsisting Lord.
From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá
He is, and hath from everlasting been, one and alone, without peer or equal, eternal in the past, eternal in the future, detached from all things, ever-abiding, unchangeable, and self-subsisting.
From Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh
The course of nature is either one with, or a reverential synonyme of, the ever present divine agency; or it is a self-subsisting derivative from, and dependent on, the divine will.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
