dependance

English

Noun

dependance (countable and uncountable, plural dependances)

  1. (archaic) dependence
    • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathon, Chapter 5
      Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependance of one fact upon another...
    • 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition, book 3, chapter 12:
      More veniable is a dependance upon the Philosophers stone, potable gold, or any of those Arcana's whereby Paracelsus that died himself at forty seven, gloried that he could make other men immortal.
    • c. 1794, Jane Austen, “[Lady Susan.] XXIX. Lady Susan Venon to Mrs. Johnson.”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 273:
      I am still doubtful at times as to marrying; if the old man would die I might not hesitate, but a state of dependance on the caprice of Sir Reginald will not suit the freedom of my spirit; […]
  2. Misspelling of dependence.

Italian

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Etymology

From French. Doublet of dipendenza.

Noun

dependance f (invariable)

  1. outbuilding
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