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RELIANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Certainty based on past experience
Example:
he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun
Synonyms:
reliance; trust
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reliance" is a kind of...):
certainty (the state of being certain)
Derivation:
rely (have faith or confidence in)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of relying on something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("reliance" is a kind of...):
dependance; dependence; dependency (the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else)
Derivation:
reliant (relying on another for support)
rely (have faith or confidence in)
Context examples:
Barrett points out that the Inuit of the region favoured female walruses when hunting, so the prevalence of females in Greenland’s later exports could imply a growing Norse reliance on Inuit supply.
(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)
At the same time, visual regions had the most significant decreases in cost of activity during alcohol intoxication, which is consistent with the reliance of these regions on alternative energy sources such as acetate, a byproduct of alcohol metabolism.
(Study of brain energy patterns provides new insights into alcohol effects, National Institutes of Health)
A pain rating scale that attempts objectivity by reliance on a person's ability to rate pain on a scale of 0 to 5, 10, or 100, where the lowest number in the scale represents no pain and the highest number represents the worst imaginable pain.
(Numeric Pain Scale, NCI Thesaurus)
Spare us the enumeration! Au reste, we all know them: danger of bad example to innocence of childhood; distractions and consequent neglect of duty on the part of the attached—mutual alliance and reliance; confidence thence resulting—insolence accompanying—mutiny and general blow-up.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
That you may begin, in a small way, to have a reliance upon yourself, and to act for yourself, said my aunt, I shall send you upon your trip, alone.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On the strength of Darcy's regard, Bingley had the firmest reliance, and of his judgement the highest opinion.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man; yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; so much ease in his demeanour; such a look of complete indifference to his own external appearance; so haughty a reliance on the power of other qualities, intrinsic or adventitious, to atone for the lack of mere personal attractiveness, that, in looking at him, one inevitably shared the indifference, and, even in a blind, imperfect sense, put faith in the confidence.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I encouraged him to talk about Sophy, on the way; which he did with a loving reliance on her that I very much admired.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine made every thing easy.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But her abiding reliance was on Mr. Dick.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
