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Definition of Lifeway
1. Noun. (context: now chiefly North America) One's path through life; a manner, a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lifeway
1. a way of living [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lifeway
Literary usage of Lifeway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for edited by Ada-Helen Bayer, Frances L. Brisbane, Amelie Ramirez, Leonard G. Epstein (1998)
"According to this notion, cultural changes proceed away from one's own cultural
lifeway in a linear manner and culminate in the full and complete ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1885)
"... that would have been lost but for the aid thus rendered to genius and excellence
in those first steps on the lifeway which are the hardest to be taken. ..."
3. Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... "ghostway," and "lifeway." Holy- way chants—including the most famous,
called "blessingway"—are used to attract good, to cure, and to repair. ..."
4. Classic Latin Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson (1893)
"Therefore one could not easily turn me back on my lifeway, nor would I willingly,
like Pelias, be plunged in the rejuvenating caldron. ..."
5. King's Chapel Sermons by Andrew Preston Peabody (1891)
"My friends, on our lifeway be God in Christ our pattern and our goal. As we take
Christ into our hearts and reproduce him in our lives, let us never forget ..."
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