livelihood

substantivo

1. 1

   A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income).

   an independent livelihood; to make / earn / gain / win a good livelihood by the sweat of one's brow

   But now when Philtra ſaw my lands decay, And former liuelod fayle, ſhe left me quight[…].

   […] a Man may as easily know where to find one, to teach him to Debauch, Whore, Game, and Blaspheme, as to teach him to Write, or Cast Accompt: ’Tis their Support, and Business; nay, their very Profession, and Livelihood; getting their Living by those Practices, for which they deserve to forfeit their Lives.

   1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, No. 42, Monday May 14, p. 245, Trade […] employs Multitudes of Hands both by Sea and Land, and furnishes the poorest of our Fellow-Subjects with the Opportunities of gaining an honest Livelihood.

2. 2

   arcaicoProperty which brings in an income; an estate.

   Then ſayde Peter: Ananias how is it that ſatan hath filled thyne hert thatt thou ſhuldeſt lye vnto the holy gooſt and kepe awaye parte off the pryce off the lyvelod[…]?

3. 3

   obsoletoLiveliness; appearance of life.

   […] the tiranny of her ſorrowes takes all liuelihood from her cheeke.

4. 4

   obsoletoThe course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.

   wel said Merlyn I knowe a lord of yours in this land that is a passyng true man & a feithful & he shal haue the nourysshyng of your child & his name is sir Ector & he is a lord of fair lyuelode in many partyes in Englond & walys

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livelihoods