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It was the same in other things; the boy formed independent opinions and prejudices in all the relations of life--independent, that is, of his past.

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  1. adjective Not governed by a foreign power; self-governing.
  2. adjective Free from the influence, guidance, or control of another or others; self-reliant: an independent mind.
  3. adjective Not determined or influenced by someone or something else; not contingent: a decision independent of the outcome of the study.
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  • In Guinea, independent from the French in 1960, there was bloodshed on a huge scale before the soldiers took over control of the country.
  • "Archer is a fresh voice in American independent film, and he emerged from Sundance not as a mainstream wonder but as an artistic underdog," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • Steven Soderbergh film that became a signature moment in American independent film. —  Zap2it.com - Zap 2 News & Buzz
  • Where partisans are "judgment-impaired," crippled by perceptual bias, the independent is a nimble "positive empiricist," "cognitively mobilized." —  Cato Daily Podcast
  • A Sundance roundtable featuring four unique voices in American independent cinema - —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. Formerly also independant; = French indépendant = Spanish Portuguese independente = Italian independente, independente, from New Latin *independen(t-)s, not dependent, from Latin in- privative + dependen(t-)s, dependent: see dependent.
 

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