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Definition of Subsistence

Subsistence

  1. Real being; existence.
  2. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
  3. That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.
  4. Same as Hypostasis, 2.

Subsistence Quotations

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

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

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

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
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Subsistence Translations

subsistence in Spanish is subsistencia
subsistence in Swedish is existens

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