subsist
/səbˈsɪst/ verb C2- To survive on a minimum of resources.
- To have ontological reality; to exist.
- To retain a certain state; to continue.
He/she/it subsists · Past subsisted · Past participle subsisted · -ing form subsisting
Verb forms
- Base form
- subsist
- He/she/it
- subsists
- Past
- subsisted
- Past participle
- subsisted
- -ing form
- subsisting
From the library
“Will it not be advisable, before we proceed on this subject, to arrange with rather more precision the degree of importance which is to appertain to this request, as well as the degree of intimacy subsisting between the parties?”
“The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness; and, since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequently wished to heal the breach: but, for some time, I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at variance.
Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them mutually silent on the subject; and Elizabeth felt persuaded that no real confidence could ever subsist between them again.
Between the two eldest and herself especially, there subsisted a very particular regard.
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