subsistence
/səbˈsɪstəns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "the human nature loseth its proper subsistence , and is assumed into the subsistence of the divine nature"
- "the subsistence of qualities in bodies"
- "In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will."
- "His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province."
Etymology
From Middle English subsistence; partly from Middle French subsistence (modern French subsistance) and partly from its etymon Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistēns, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). Perhaps also partly from subsist + -ence.