Both Uses
subsist
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- It was not enough for us to subsist upon.†
Chpt 9 *subsist = survive
- or where to stay,—perfectly helpless both as to the means of defence and means of escape,—in the midst of plenty, yet suffering the terrible gnawings of hunger,—in the midst of houses, yet having no home,—among fellow-men, yet feeling as if in the midst of wild beasts, whose greediness to swallow up the trembling and half-famished fugitive is only equalled by that with which the monsters of the deep swallow up the helpless fish upon which they subsist,—I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation,—the situation in which I was placed,—then, and not till then, will he fully appreciate the hardships of, and know how to sympathize with, the toil-worn and whip-scarred fugitive slave.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(subsist) to survive or exist -- especially without being able to manage comforts or luxuries
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)