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reliance|rɪˈlaɪəns|
[f. rely v.1 + -ance.]
1. The († or an) act of relying; the condition or character of being reliant; dependence, confidence.
a. Const. on, upon, or in.
1607Shakes. Timon ii. i. 22 My reliances on his fracted dates Haue smit my credit. 1687tr. Sallust (1692) 241 All these things are their Security and Protection, while my Relyance is only upon my self. a1713T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1714) 33 That my Reliance might be wholly upon him; and not on Man. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. vii. 223 This Reliance on the Promises of God. 1781Jefferson Corr. Wks. 1859 I. 291 A private channel on which I have considerable reliance. 1813Southey Nelson II. 34 A man..upon whose sagacity..he could place full reliance. 1823― Penins. War I. 216 Don Pedro de Labrador..in whose talents he had great reliance. 1865Tennyson Captain 57 Those in whom he had reliance..Sold him unto shame. 1877Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. viii. 88 In such a labyrinth of lies little reliance can be placed on statements unconfirmed by writing.
b. Without const.
a1728Woodward (J.), That pellucid gelatinous substance, which he pitches upon with so great reliance and positiveness. 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. ii. (1872) 16 Not by merit nor by works, but by trust or reliance only.
2. That on which one relies or depends.
1798C. Smith Yng. Philos. I. 78 She seemed to have no protection or reliance on earth but him. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xx. 251 The dogs, the indispensable reliance of the party, were in bad working trim. 1879S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Pal. iii. 44 The chief direct reliance is the main river. |