Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for theliving.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN, page ix:
It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study asliving entities.
The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place aliving monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
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Financial means; a means of maintaining life;livelihood
it's aliving
What do you do for aliving?
1983 December 10, Jolanta Benal, “The Second Revolution”, inGay Community News, volume11, number21, page14:
Career opportunity[…] is the one who never knocks — especially not on the doors of women, who are still hooking, housewifing and hairdressing for theirlivings.
A style of life.
plainliving
The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of PleasantLiving.
Glad to see you're still amongthe living! [good-humored greeting]
Some say that the spirits of the departed walk amongthe living, though most of us do not see them.
(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiasticalbenefice.
1616,Henry Spelman,De Non Temerandis Ecclesijs[Churches Not to Be Violated]. A Tract of the Rights and Respect Due unto Churches.[…], 2nd edition, London:[…] Iohn Beale,→OCLC,pages2–3:
A Rectory or Parſonage, is aSpirituallliuing, compoſed ofLand,Tythe, and otherOblations of the people, ſeparate or dedicate to God in anyCongregation, for the ſeruice of his Church there, and for the maintenance of theGouernour orMiniſter thereof, to vvhoſe charge the ſame is committed.
2015, GR Evans,Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:
The patron of theliving who had the right to nominate a particular priest might make the choice, but theliving was actually granted by the local bishop.
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