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Dependancy vs Dependance - What's the difference?

dependancy | dependance |

As nouns the difference between dependancy and dependance

is that dependancy is archaic form of lang=en while dependance is dependence.

dependancy

English

Noun

  • * 1858 , Hercules Robinson, Sea drift (page 92)
    • One thing we may learn from Spain as she is, namely, the management of colonies. "Sweet are the uses of adversity;" and the "precious jewel" in this case is to be found in Spanish dependancies .
    (Webster 1913)

    dependance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) dependence
  • * 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathon, Chapter 5
    • ...Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependance of one fact upon another...
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