Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Subsidence.
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- noun Archaic form of
subsidence .
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Examples
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"I listen not to the country people telling it was experimented by a goose, which was put in and came out again with _life_ (though without feathers); but hearken seriously to those who judiciously impute the _subsidency_ of the earth in the interstice aforesaid to some underground hollowness made by that water in the passage thereof."
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Fame is valuable simply as the test of excellence; and there is a certain kind of popularity, sudden alike in its rise and subsidency, which deserves not the other and lasting name, for it fails to soothe that intellectual conscience which a great writer has declared to exist equally with the moral conscience.
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Fame is valuable simply as the test of excellence; and there is a certain kind of popularity, sudden alike in its rise and subsidency, which deserves not the other and lasting name, for it fails to soothe that intellectual conscience which a great writer has declared to exist equally with the moral conscience.
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard Anonymous 1862
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In the subsidency and departure of love, the moral system is revolutionized and human nature disordered.
Margaret 1851
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