dependant
See also: dépendant
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈpɛndənt/
Adjective
dependant (comparative more dependant, superlative most dependant)
- Obsolete spelling of dependent
- 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 177:
- Mrs. Smith has this morning exercised the privilege of riches upon a poor dependant cousin, by sending me on business to London.
- Misspelling of dependent.
- 2006 April 27, Sylvia Moosmüller, Theodor Granser, “The spread of Standard Albanian: An illustration based on an analysis of vowels”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 18, number 2, Cambridge University Press, :
- However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style […]
Translations
one who relies on another for support — see dependent
References
- Merriam-Webster Indicating only US spelling is "dependent" (redirects, lists British spelling as a "variant".)
- Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, pp. 148-149.
- Encarta Always a misspelling in US English, adjective and noun are differentiated in British English by spelling.
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