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Definition
to survive — especially without being able to manage comforts or luxuries
- I should be very sorry that such a friendship as has subsisted between him and Captain Benwick should be destroyed, or even wounded, by a circumstance of this sort.Chapter 18 (94% in)
There are no more uses of "subsist" in Persuasion.
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