dependance

plural dependances

1. archaiccountableuncountableArchaic spelling of dependence.

   Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependance of one fact upon another...

   1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathon, Chapter 5

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   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.

   1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition, book 3, chapter 12

   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; […]

   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

   He says, however, that he is sure he is happier, even in this situation, than are some of his cousins at this instant, who are struggling in poverty to be genteel, or to keep up a family name, and he would not change places with those who are in a state of idle and opprobrious dependance.

   1814, Maria Edgeworth, chapter VI, in Patronage. […], volume I, London: […] [J. M‘Creery] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, page 199

2. countablemisspellinguncountableMisspelling of dependence.