Definition of Subsistence

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Subsistence

Real being; existence.

Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.

That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.

Same as Hypostasis, 2.

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Subsistence Quotations

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
Norman Borlaug

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Thomas Malthus

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Thomas Malthus

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Karl Kraus

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
William Ames

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
George Berkeley

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
Antonio Tabucchi

Subsistence Translations

subsistence in Spanish is subsistencia
subsistence in Swedish is existens

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