All 3 Uses of
subsistence
in
Of Human Bondage
- He earned a bare subsistence by writing on the exhibitions of pictures for one or two English papers, and he did a certain amount of translating.†
Chpt 45-46 *
- I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art.'†
Chpt 51-52
- in the end was the workhouse or subsistence on the charity of her children.†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
what is minimally needed to survive; or the condition of minimally surviving