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Grammar : Noun
Spell : dih-pen-duh ns
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈpɛn dəns

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Définition of dependence

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Middle French dépendance, from dependre (see depend). Originally also dependance (the earlier form), depending whether the writer had French or Latin foremost in mind; the Latin form gradually predominated and after c.1800 dependance is rare. As an adjective from c.1600.
  • noun reliance
Example sentences :
  • Consider what you are about—this work of yours is the only dependence we have in the world.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • All my dependence, all my hopes, are in your mother's favour.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • The greater her disappointment from them, the greater must be her dependence on me.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • His dependence for that must be founded in the doctrine of the other preacher.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • It was fortunate for the country, that this was their dependence.
  • Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
  • Think of it—their dependence on man, their temptations, their rewards, their punishments!
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • That was161 my benefactor's way of reminding me of my dependence on his bounty.
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • It will be disastrous, I say, to place any dependence in the good will of this one Lodorian.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 » by Various
  • It was the sense of that dependence which destroyed equality.
  • Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
  • On the least occasion and even on no occasions at all she was scolded, or else taunted with her dependence.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad

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