depend
verb (used without object)
to rely; place trust (usually followed by on orupon ).
self-depending
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a word derived from
depend.
Example Sentences
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These two years had made a man of the rough, idle, pleasure-loving boy, and a man after the Ironsides' fashion, grave, self-contained, and self-depending.
From Under the Storm by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
By a Club, a Woman executive; of some audacity; restless or self-depending: admiring intellect of solid kind tho' maybe lacking it.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward
Slowly his gaze ranged over the floor—up to the galleries—up—up to the swinging dome—in all architecture nothing so nearly a self-depending sky.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis
If you had kept your first estate with men, and as a Kakravartin monarch ruled the world, possessing then no self-depending power of miracle, how could my soul have then received deliverance?
From Sacred Books of the East by Various
