self-subsisting
- 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
But the act by which she puts to death a free, self-subsisting being, is her solemn—to all Reason apparent—transcending of that act, and of the entire sphere which she thereby closes.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
His sole argument in favor of its pre-existence is that the soul, being a self-subsisting substance and not an accident, is not dependent upon the body, and must have existed before the body.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac
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
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
