Dependence
[dɪ'pend(ə)ns] or [dɪ'pɛndəns]
Definition
(noun.) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else.
Edited by Jeremy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.
(n.) The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause).
(n.) Mutu/// /onnection and support; concatenation; systematic ///er relation.
(n.) Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self.
(n.) A resting with confidence; reliance; trust.
(n.) That on which one depends or relies; as, he was her sole dependence.
(n.) That which depends; anything dependent or suspended; anything attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else.
(n.) A matter depending, or in suspense, and still to be determined; ground of controversy or quarrel.
Typist: Marietta
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Connection, concatenation.[2]. Reliance, trust, confidence.[3]. Stay, staff, support, prop, buttress, supporter.[4]. Subordination, subjection.
Edited by Eileen
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DEPENDENT_and_RELIANCE]
Checked by John
Examples
- A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I cannot conscientiously advise you to do it in dependence on any activity of mine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It would be dishonorable to let others engage themselves to anything serious in dependence on me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But Bingley has great natural modesty, with a stronger dependence on my judgement than on his own. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- After a while we took it as a matter of course that the head of a company was an administrative dummy, with a dependence on unofficial power similar to that of Governor Dix on Boss Murphy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I believe I have been wrong in saying so much, but I hardly know what to do, and on your prudence I have the strongest dependence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He has made up his mind to leave off wandering at once, and to give up his dependence on your generosity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Thus, there remained no possibility of dependence on others; to myself alone could I look. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yet if helplessness were all there were in dependence, no development could ever take place. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This absolute self-dependence is a great virtue in a man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There are other particulars of this system, wherein we may remark its dependence on the fancy, in a very conspicuous manner. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This utter dependence of the speechless, bleeding youth (as a youth he regarded him) on his benevolence secured that benevolence most effectually. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My sole dependence was on you; and I am sure nobody else will believe me, if you do not. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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