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Depend

verb

(past & past part. depended; pres. part. depending)

Be contingent upon (something that is elided).

Have faith or confidence in. Synonyms: bet, calculate, count, look, reckon. "Look to your friends for support" , "You can bet on that!" , "Depend on your family in times of crisis"

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"Depend" Quotes from Famous Books

... bodily condition and circumstances depend on Karma, while Karma depends on perception and will, the sage recognizes the fact that from this may be drawn the false deduction that material things are in no wise different from states of mind. The same thought has occurred, ...

— The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali • Charles Johnston

... "Depend upon it, sir," Mr. Wickham would return with an easy chuckle, "you will find the world full of young men who will be happy to relieve you of every responsibility ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various

... rest of the army in order of battle, he advanced towards the enemy. The Gauls did the same, when they found that their stratagem was detected, and that they were to engage in a fair and regular battle, where success must depend ...

— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius

... sympathetic feeling, and shunned both me and my dreary habitation. From that hour I have never felt the affection for my own sex which perhaps some women feel; I have never taught my heart to cherish their friendship, or to depend on their attentions beyond the short perspective of a prosperous day. Indeed, I have almost uniformly found my own sex my most inveterate enemies; I have experienced little kindness from them, though my bosom has often ached ...

— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson

... passion twice in one morning, that I love you exceedingly. I daresay you think me very odd, and people say that I am so; I may ask you to do many odd things for me, but I shall never ask you to do what a lady may not do, or what would be incorrect for you to do, or for me to propose; that you may depend upon, Valerie: and now I close my manuscript for the present, being well satisfied with ...

— Valerie • Frederick Marryat

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