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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ri-lahy-uhns |
| Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈlaɪ əns |
Definition of reliance
Origin :- c.1600, from rely + -ance.
- noun confidence
- She has such a strong attachment to you and reliance on you.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- And why is her own reliance on my honour so late and so reluctantly shown?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Her reliance on his secrecy, and his tacit acquiescence, increased his distress of mind.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- A curious sense of reliance upon his superiority in years had come to him.
- Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
- What have been the consequences in America of reliance upon this formula?
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- But in the judicial branch of the government is where, after all, we must place our reliance.
- Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various
- She was like a child in her reliance on my sagacity and skill.
- Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland
- No reliance can be placed upon the opinions of the English press at the time.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. » by Mrs. Thomson
- On you, every reliance is placed; and I wish I could say as much for every flag-officer afloat.
- Extract from : « The Two Admirals » by J. Fenimore Cooper
- Etana's reliance upon the eagle leads to disgrace and defeat.
- Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
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