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Definition of Subsistences
1. subsistence [n] - See also: subsistence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsistences
Literary usage of Subsistences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1899)
"Wherefore we do not speak of the form as from subsistences, ... The subsistences
then we say are perfect, that we may not conceive of the divine nature as ..."
2. Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections by John Wilson (1884)
"... there seems to be no difference whatever between a Trinity of distinct minds
or beings and a Trinity of distinct persons, subsistences, or agents. | 9. ..."
3. Christian Theology by Milton Valentine (1906)
"The relations between the Persons or subsistences : I. The three Persons exist
eternally as One Being, ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... Neither was this trinity of Divine subsistences only thus ill-lan- guaged by
the Pagans generally, when they called it a trinity of gods ; but also the ..."
5. The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine (1885)
"subsistences.—I. Complexity of the economical operation by which articles of
prime necessity ... The War-budget and subsistences after 1793.—Paper-money. ..."
6. The Student's Handbook of Philosophy: Psychology by Benjamin Franklin Cocker (1882)
"The ultimate Realities (subsistences) which are the ground and explanation of
all phenomenal and derivative existences. Psychological analysis discloses ..."
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