dependance

See also: Dependance, dépendance, and Dépendance

English

Etymology

From Middle French dépendance, equivalent to depend +‎ -ance.

Noun

dependance (countable and uncountable, plural dependances)

1. (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.

   • c. 1794, Jane Austen, “[Lady Susan.] XXIX. Lady Susan Venon to Mrs. Johnson.”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 273:

     I am still doubtful at times as to marrying; if the old man would die I might not hesitate, but a state of dependance on the caprice of Sir Reginald will not suit the freedom of my spirit; […]

2. Misspelling of dependence.

Derived terms

• dependancy

 

Italian

Alternative forms

• dépendance

Etymology

From French. Doublet of dipendenza.

Noun

dependance f (invariable)

1. outbuilding