Dependance

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See dependence, dependency.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. dependence
  • noun. Misspelling of dependence
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  • noun. being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
  • noun. the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
  • Word Usage
    "Nature thought good sense a handsome dower — but good sense in dependance is like a chef d oeuvres of Raffaelle [10] in a bog house. if the savages of America have fewer luxuries than the slaves of Europe they have fewer miseries — the artificial distinctions of birth & fortune are unknown — distinctions which though the Philosopher must despise, he must want. on the banks of the Oronoko when the young savages is born — his infancy is neither embitterd by fashionable nursing his puberty by absurd education or his life by the anxieties so frequent"
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