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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “PENDENCY”

PENDENCY n. 2 definitions
The quality or state of being undecided, or in continuance; suspense; as, the pendency of a suit. Ayliffe.
APPENDENCE; APPENDENCY n.
State of being appendant; appendance. [Obs.]
DEPENDENCY n. 4 definitions
nnection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. Bacon.
DISAPPENDENCY n.
A detachment or separation from a former connection. [R.]
EQUIPENDENCY n.
The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way. South.
IMPENDENCE; IMPENDENCY n.
The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin.
INDEPENDENCY n. 2 definitions
Independence. "Give me," I cried (enough for me), "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
INTERDEPENDENCY n.
Mutual dependence; as, interdependency of interests. De Quincey.
PROPENDENCY n. 2 definitions
Propensity. [R.]
VILIPENDENCY n.
Disesteem; slight; disparagement. [R.] E. Waterhouse.
APPANAGE n.
A dependency; a dependent territory.
BARROWIST n.
A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
DEPENDANT; DEPENDANCE; DEPENDANCY n.
See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency.
INDEPENDENTISM n.
Independency; the church system of Independents. Bp. Gauden.
SUSPENSION n.
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
TALOOK; TALUK n.
A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it. [India]