Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Hang; inclination.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Slope; inclination.

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  • noun obsolete slope; inclination

Etymologies

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See pendent.

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Examples

  • I am not a biologist, but I can imagine that ‘independent of selection’ could even be replaced with ‘sufficiently independent of selection’, i.e. admitting a certain codependence.

    Mitt Romney, Theistic Evolutionist - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Justin Chatwin less a romance than a lesson in codependence.

    latimes.com - News 2011

  • We know that the way to cure the ills of our civilisation is to bring about a real conception of liberty, to restore the dignity of man and the inde­pendence of the family, properly safeguarded by the distribution of property.

    G.K.'s Weekly - Two Difficulties 2008

  • Despite the fact that I am willing to discuss aspects of the administration of justice with anyone - including General Viljoen - it has to be kept in mind that my Department and I respect the inde - pendence of all the courts in accordance with the Constitution and that we cannot, neither do we want to, interfere with any judicial authority or discretion to prosecute persons.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • They thought they still ruled her, and permitted her what they thought was the illusion of inde-pendence.

    The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • DONE in Convention by the unanimous consent of the States present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the inde - pendence of the United States of America the twelfth.

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

  • Its liberation was a gradual affair, starting with Solon (sixth century B.C.) and developing until the overthrow of Athenian inde - pendence under Philip of Macedon, after the Battle of Cheroneia (336 B.C.)

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • Descartes started pleasure on its path to inde - pendence, because his dualism attempted to apportion experience to either the body or the soul.

    HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE ABRAHAM EDEL 1968

  • Machiavelli's stress on inde - pendence was a response to this condition.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JERROLD E. SEIGEL 1968

  • Another such movement in Lorraine can be seen from 1046 making a specific call for the absolute inde - pendence of the spiritual authority.

    CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

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