Both Uses of
subsistence
in
Washington Square, by Henry James
- What are his present means of subsistence?†
Chpt 6 *
- This attack was unexpected, for Mrs. Penniman was not used, in any discussion, to seeing the war carried into her own country—possibly because the enemy generally had doubts of finding subsistence there.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
what is minimally needed to survive; or the condition of minimally surviving