dependent state
Example Sentences
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It was hard, she said, to shake off the dependent state of being a prisoner.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011
As the feeling of enjoyment in action grows strong, the feeling of a dependent state of being, the feeling of being a messenger, grows weak.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
His behaviour in this dependent state, was the very reverse of what it should have been.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus
This dependent state of mind is far removed from virtue.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)
We did not make a proper use of last winter, neither could we, while we were in a dependent state.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis by Conway, Moncure Daniel
