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noun

Dependency n. (pl. dependencies)

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. "Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other." "So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England."

A thing hanging down; a dependence.

That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like. "This earth and its dependencies." "Modes I call such complex ideas which... are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances."

A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America. Note: Dependence is more used in the abstract, and dependency in the concrete. The latter is usually restricted in meaning to 3 and 4.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the bar; who robbed a prince with the grace of a courtier, and was the beau ideal of swindlers. He was distinguished in New South Wales for his integrity in the office of chief constable, and his diligence as a farmer. He died regretted, in the year this dependency was colonised.[98] ...

— The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) • John West

... the state of the affairs in the tiny republic which, in the heart of the Rue Saint-Denis, was not unlike a dependency of La Trappe. But to give a full account of events as well as of feelings, it is needful to go back to some months before the scene with which this story opens. At dusk one evening, a young man passing the darkened shop of the Cat ...

— At the Sign of the Cat and Racket • Honore de Balzac

... Flint. This arrangement secured the strongholds of Flint and Rhuddlan for the king. But the district was too small to make it worth while to set up a separate organisation for it, and Flintshire was put under the justice and courts of Chester, so that it became a dependency of the ...

— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout

... denotes a vast and almost unknown territory situated between China Proper and Siberia, constituting the largest dependency of the Chinese Empire. It stretches from the Sea of Japan on the east to Turkestan on the west, a distance of nearly 3,000 miles; and from the southern boundary of Asiatic Russia to the Great Wall of China, a distance of about 900 miles. It ...

— James Gilmour of Mongolia - His diaries, letters, and reports • James Gilmour

... means to a woman—a young girl especially. It means the breaking of old ties, the beginning of a new life, the setting out into an unknown world on a voyage from which there can be no return. In her weakness and her helplessness she leaves one dependency for another, the shelter of a father for the shelter of a husband. What does she bring to the man she marries? Herself, everything she is, everything she can be, to be made or marred by him, and never, never, never to be the same to any other man ...

— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine

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