dependence

• His dominant failing was a self-dependence, which, in a weaker nature, would have degenerated into self-sufficiency, but just stopped short of that complacent, puerile egotism, which narrows the mind, and rears its own opinions upon a judgment-seat to pronounce verdicts upon the rest of the world. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
• She feels that he cares very little for their welfare, that for everything she must depend upon her eldest son, and the dependence is bitter. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
• The foundation and the building have a near dependence, the corner-stone and the wall—these knit together; and Christ Jesus is the foundation and “the chief corner-stone, in whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple,” Eph. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• This practice drew upon him an universal accusation of ingratitude: nor can it be denied that he was very ready to set himself free from the load of an obligation; for he could not bear to conceive himself in a state of dependence, his pride being equally powerful with his other passions, and appearing in the form of insolence at one time, and of vanity at another. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• In its process it is the gradual transition from a state of entire dependence, as at birth, to a state of independence, as in adult life. —  The Education of American Girls

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