Meaning of consist in | Babel Free

Definitions

To have the thing mentioned as the only or most important part.

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Examples

“Tolerance consists in respecting other people’s opinions.”

“When you read their writings, life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses, — in the smiles and frowns of a fair enemy, and the fire that consumes your own heart.”

“It is that contact between the mind and things does not consist, at any level, in perceptions of simple data or in associations of such unities, but always consists in apprehensions of more or less “structured” complexes.”

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