"subsister" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "subsist + -er",
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      "form": "subsisters",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1843, Andrew Clarke, Tour in France, Italy and Switzerland: During the Years 1840 and 1841, page 25",
          "text": "a race of disobedient children, a progeny of beggars, a nation of bare subsisters on the soil",
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        "One who subsists."
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  "etymology_text": "subsist + -er",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "One who subsists."
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