dependance
See also: Dependance, dépendance, and Dépendance
English
Noun
dependance (countable and uncountable, plural dependances)
- (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.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathon, Chapter 5
- Misspelling of dependence.
Italian
Alternative forms
- dépendance
Etymology
French
Noun
dependance f (invariable)
- outbuilding