Definitions
certainty based on past experience
Word origin
From rely + -ance.
Used in a sentence
“Your reliance on his expertise may be misplaced.”
“[…] his days and times are past And my reliances on his fracted [i.e. broken] dates Have smit my credit:”
“How unfavourable is Chance, said Arabella fretting at the Disappointment, to Persons who have any Reliance upon it!”
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01“Dependence”8 letters
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