The Only Use
subsistence
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
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- Her father grew worse; her time was more entirely occupied in attending him; her means of subsistence decreased; and in the tenth month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar.†
p. 34.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(subsistence) what is minimally needed to survive; or the condition of minimally surviving
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)