Antonyms for reliance

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ri-lahy-uhns

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈlaɪ əns

Definition of reliance

Origin : c.1600, from rely + -ance.

noun confidence

Example sentences :

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

Synonyms for reliance

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