Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Independence"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Independence \In`de*pend"ence\, n. [Cf. F. ind['e]pendance.]
1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from
dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by,
others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of
one's own affairs without interference.

Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never
makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
--Pope.

2. Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.

{Declaration of Independence} (Amer. Hist.), the declaration
of the Congress of the Thirteen United States of America,
on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared
that these colonies were free and independent States, not
subject to the government of Great Britain.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

independence
n 1: freedom from control or influence of another or others [syn:
{independency}]
2: the successful ending of the American Revolution; "they
maintained close relations with England even after
independence"
3: a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe
Trail [syn: {Independence}]


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