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Life-source

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Meaning

Anything that is necessary for or that provides something that is necessary for sustaining life..

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Every branch vigorously growing on the main stem drawing fecundity from the sap produces leaves, flowers and fruit, but every branch which either from accident, sickness, or refusal to draw from the parent stem. separates itself from the inherited life-source, dooms itself to wither and die.
Because I cut the bonds of those so joined, I bear my head cut off from its life-source, which is back there, alas, within its trunk.
In popular belief, the soul has been seen as the life-source that gives shape, individuality and life to each human being;

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What does life-source mean?

Life-source means Anything that is necessary for or that provides something that is necessary for sustaining life..

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How do you use life-source in a sentence?

Every branch vigorously growing on the main stem drawing fecundity from the sap produces leaves, flowers and fruit, but every branch which either from accident, sickness, or refusal to draw from the parent stem. separates itself from the inherited life-source, dooms itself to wither and die.

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