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
The vague individual thing, as "some man," signifies the common nature with the determinate mode of existence of singular things—that is, something self-subsisting, as distinct from others.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Our inference of the simple from the composite is valid only of self-subsisting things.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Each little hamlet was engaged in providing crops of hay, wheat, barley, oats, beans, and had to fulfil the other purposes required by a self-subsisting community.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
Now, when, by such transference, a self-subsisting sentiment of aversion has been created, the conscience seems to be detached from all external sanctions, and to possess an isolated footing in the mind.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
