Definition of "pendence" [pend•ence]

• Slope; inclination (noun)

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• "I am not a biologist, but I can imagine that ‘independent of selection’ could even be replaced with ‘sufficiently independent of selection’, i.e. admitting a certain codependence."
• "Justin Chatwin less a romance than a lesson in codependence."
• "We know that the way to cure the ills of our civilisation is to bring about a real conception of liberty, to restore the dignity of man and the inde­pendence of the family, properly safeguarded by the distribution of property."