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Princeton's WordNet

  1. addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituationnoun

    being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

  2. dependence, dependance, dependencynoun

    the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else

Wiktionary

  1. dependancenoun

    dependence

  2. dependancenoun

    Misspelling of dependence

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Dependance, Dependancynoun

    Etymology: from depend.

    On a neighb’ring tree descending light,
    Like a large cluster of black grapes they show,
    And make a large dependance from the bough. John Dryden, Virgil.

    In all sorts of reasoning, the connexion and dependance of ideas should be followed, ’till the mind is brought to the source on which it bottoms. John Locke.

    Every moment we feel our dependance upon God, and find that we can neither be happy without him, nor think ourselves so. John Tillotson, Serm. 1.

    Never was there a prince bereaved of his dependancies by his council, except where there hath been either an overgreatness in one counsellor, or an over-strict combination in divers. Francis Bacon, Essay 21.

    The second natural division of power, is of such men who have acquired large possessions, and consequently dependancies; or descend from ancestors, who have left them great inheritances. Jonathan Swift, on the Dissentions in Athens and Rome.

    Their dependencies on him were drowned in this conceit. Richard Hooker, b. i. s. 4.

    They slept in peace by night,
    Secure of bread, as of returning light;
    And with such firm dependance on the day,
    That need grew pamper’d, and forgot to pray. Dryden.

    Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of substances; such are the ideas signified by the words triangle, gratitude, murder. John Locke.

ChatGPT

  1. dependance

    Dependence refers to the state or condition of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else. This reliance could be emotional, physical, psychological, or financial. It is often characterized by a lack of independence or self-sufficiency.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dependancenoun

    alt. of Dependancy

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dependance in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dependance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of dependance in a Sentence

  1. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

    Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.

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