Being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
1 They dined at the table d'hote, but took all other meals alone, and slept in a detached wing or ' dependance ' of the hotel.
2 But dependance on the justice of others is a precarious condition.
3 Indolent, and by long habit worthless, no dependance could be placed on them.
4 During the day I felt a humble dependance upon Jesus.
5 Are they that live in dependance on thee also happy?
6 That we must rely on God Himself, and our whole dependance must be upon Him.
7 So that my dependance is upon Mr. Blagrave, and so home to supper and to bed.
8 Thus I was thrown upon dependance without resource.
9 All my dependance is upon his principles.
10 These were indubitably the old Achaean race, who had been reduced, not to slavery, but to dependance.
11 The origin of prayer is in the sense of dependance, and in the instinct of self-preservation or self-interest.
12 But clover is the only universal dependance; as that is almost everywhere, to some extent, in the country.
13 She may insinuate, and countermine; but I have a tolerably strong dependance on my own power over Anna.
14 Sweet is the daily bread granted to my prayers and dependance on the sole Giver of all good!'
15 They were borne with the same spirit that in all her life guided her conduct,- astrictdependance upon Providence.
16 By polished manners I mean that good-breeding, that art of reserve and self-restraint, which is the consequence of dependance.
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