n. Means of support; subsistence. [Middle English livelyhed, alteration (influenced by liflihed, liveliness, energy, vigor) of livelode, from Old English līflād : līf, life; see LIFE + lād, course; see leit- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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