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self-sustenance

self-sustenance noun: the independent sustenance of oneself, such as not requiring much oxygen to breathe or food to eat and liquids to drink like average species.

Noun

self-sustenance (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The independent sustenance of oneself, such as not requiring much oxygen to breathe or food to eat and liquids to drink like average species.
    • We are all for utility; and it would be ‘well that it should be so, if, like the boar of the forest, which delves up the flower to get at the root, we had no instincts beyond those of self-sustenance. But, as we have the immortal power of imagination, we are bound to provide nutriment for that...1830, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1830-02: Volume 27, Issue 162, Blackwood Pillans and Wilson, page 262
    • This and other institutions have considered these questions anxiously and ceaselessly. They have endeavored to shape their plans of education and training for the future good, and, as far as possible, to secure the self-sustenance of their pupils.1832, Perkins School for the Blind, Annual Report, Charles B. Slack, page 15

self-sustenance meaning in Tamil

self-sustenance in Tamil

தன் உழைப்பு வாழ்வு

Examples of self-sustenance in a sentence

  • We are all for utility; and it would be ‘well that it should be so, if, like the boar of the forest, which delves up the flower to get at the root, we had no instincts beyond those of self-sustenance.1830, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1830-02: Volume 27, Issue 162, Blackwood Pillans and Wilson, page 262:
  • Though she was always pale in color and frail-looking, there was within her a great power of self-sustenance.1850, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine, Harper & Brothers, page 640:

Questions about self-sustenance

What does self-sustenance mean?
Self-sustenance means the independent sustenance of oneself, such as not requiring much oxygen to breathe or food to eat and liquids to drink like average species.
What is self-sustenance in Tamil?
Self-sustenance in Tamil is தன் உழைப்பு வாழ்வு. See Self-sustenance meaning in Tamil.
How do you use self-sustenance in a sentence?
We are all for utility; and it would be ‘well that it should be so, if, like the boar of the forest, which delves up the flower to get at the root, we had no instincts beyond those of self-sustenance.
What part of speech is self-sustenance?
Self-sustenance is a noun.

Words near self-sustenance in the dictionary

  1. self-sure
  2. self-surgeries
  3. self-surgery
  4. self-survival
  5. self-sustaining
  6. self-sustenance
  7. self-synchronization
  8. self-synchronize
  9. self-synchronized
  10. self-synchronizes
  11. self-synchronizing

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