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self-depending

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de⋅pend

  [di-pend]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to rely; place trust (usually fol. by on or upon): You may depend on the accuracy of the report.
2. to rely for support, maintenance, help, etc. (usually fol. by on or upon): Children depend on their parents.
3. to be conditioned or contingent (usually fol. by on or upon): His success here depends upon effort and ability.
4. to be undetermined or pending: I may go to Europe or I may not, it all depends.
5. Grammar. (of a word or other linguistic form) to be subordinate to another linguistic form in the same construction; to form a part of a construction other than the head.
6. to hang down; be suspended (usually fol. by from): The chandelier depends from the ceiling of the ballroom.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME dependen < OF dependre < L dēpendere to hang down, equiv. to dē- de- + pendere to hang
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Word Origin & History

depend 
1413, "to be attached to as a condition or cause," fig. use, from M.Fr. dependre "to hang from, hang down," from L. dependere, from de- "from, down" + pendere "to hang, be suspended" (see pendant). Dependence was spelled -ance from time of borrowing from Fr. c.1400 until respelling c.1800 by influence of Latin; dependant (1523) usually retains the Fr. form. Dependable is from 1735.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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