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e. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.

ited States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776.

or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

ld estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. Barlow.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

of power among sovereign states that no one state is in a position to interfere with the independence of the others; international equilibrium; also, the ability ( of a state or a third party within a state) to control the relations between sovereign states or between dominant parties in a state. -- Balance sheet (Bo…

The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.

Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; as, he has a great deal of character.

ve of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.

document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington). In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace. Buckle.…

o dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. The Declaration of Independence.

r any interference to oppress, or in any manner control the destiny of, governments whose independence had been acknowledged by the United States.

rth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declaration of their independence. -- E*mer"gent*ly, adv. -- E*mer"gent*ness, n. [R.]

the United States, the fourth day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.

The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence. Made captive, yet deserving freedom more. Milton.

he glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. R. Choate.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. Shak. The genius which humbled six marshals of France. Macaulay.