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Way of life may refer to: Lifestyle (sociology), a term to describe the way a person lives; Modus vivendi, a Latin phrase meaning way of life or way of living;
The term often refers to Anglo-French relations from the 1815 end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1904 Entente Cordiale. [citation needed]On 7 January 1948, the United States, Britain and Canada, concluded an agreement known as the modus vivendi, that allowed for limited sharing of technical information on nuclear weapons which officially repealed the Quebec Agreement.
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
A person's livelihood (derived from life-lode, "way of life"; cf. OG lib-leit) [1] refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life". Livelihood is defined as a set of activities essential to everyday life that are conducted over one's life span.
From the mid 19th century, the word was used with the meaning 'way through life' or 'way of life'. [1] It appears, for example, in literary contexts in the stories of Clara Lee [2] and Rose Porter, [3] in the verse of Frank L. Stanton, [4] and in editor and politician Edgar Howard's opinion pieces on other political figures. [5] [6]
The Way of Man means, among other things, procreation; and eunuchs are said to be 'far from the Way of Man'. Chu Tao is 'the way to be a monarch', i.e. the art of ruling. Each school of philosophy has its tao, its doctrine of the way in which life should be ordered.
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free from having been oppressed: Loosely, "to liberate the oppressed". Motto of the United States Army Special Forces. [4] de praescientia Dei: from/through the foreknowledge of God: Motto of the Worshipful Company of Barbers. de profundis: from the depths: Meaning from out of the depths of misery or dejection.