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Dependence   /dɪpˈɛndəns/   Listen
noun
Dependence  n.  
1.
The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.
2.
The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause). "The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon another."
3.
Mutual connection and support; concatenation; systematic inter-relation. "So dark and so intricate of purpose, without any dependence or order."
4.
Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self; a lack of independence or self-sufficiency.
Synonyms: dependance, dependency. "Reduced to a servile dependence on their mercy."
5.
A resting with confidence; reliance; trust. "Affectionate dependence on the Creator is the spiritual life of the soul."
6.
That on which one depends or relies; as, he was her sole dependence.
7.
That which depends; anything dependent or suspended; anything attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else. "Like a large cluster of black grapes they show And make a large dependence from the bough."
8.
A matter depending, or in suspense, and still to be determined; ground of controversy or quarrel. (Obs.) "To go on now with my first dependence."





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"Dependence" Quotes from Famous Books



... accustomed ourselves to see in your glorious country the nation which, first of all, substituted for military imperialism the beneficent and civilizing policy of free commercial expansion, joining producers and consumers without any link of dependence. ...
— Latin America and the United States - Addresses by Elihu Root • Elihu Root
... created Earl of Tyrone by the Queen; but disliking this servitude, and wishful to liberate his country from the English yoke, he entered into a correspondence with Spain; procured from thence a supply of arms and ammunition; and having united many of the Irish chiefs in a dependence upon himself, he began to be ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... shown that Cuvier himself has in several places so far admitted the inapplicability of the rational method, as virtually to surrender it as a method. But more than this, Professor Huxley contends that the alleged necessary correlation is not true. Quite admitting the physiological dependence of parts on each other, he denies that it is a dependence of a kind which could not be otherwise. "Thus the teeth of a lion and the stomach of the animal are in such relation that the one is fitted to ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer
... to-morrow, in some depression, we question whether we really love him at all, our feeling responds so feebly to his name. A peace that depends on our loving Christ is as variable as our own consciousness. But when it is Christ's love for us that is our dependence, our peace is undisturbed by any ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller
... those Christian princes who professed to reign "by the grace of God," never claimed that they received their principalities from God otherwise than through his ordinary providence, and meant by it little more than an acknowledgment of their dependence on him, their obligation to use their power according to his law and their accountability to him for the ...
— The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson


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