Literary notes about dependent (AI summary)
In literature, “dependent” is employed to convey relationships, conditions, and states that hinge on external or internal factors. It describes not only personal and social ties—as when an individual resents being labeled reliant on luxury [1] or when familial and social bonds dictate roles and responsibilities [2][3]—but also abstract dependencies where ideas, identities, or phenomena exist conditionally, such as moral life being contingent upon one’s circumstances [4] or natural conditions underpinning human endeavors [5]. Moreover, the term appears in technical contexts, defining syntactic relations in language [6] or functions in scientific discourse [7]. This varied usage underscores its capacity to express both tangible and metaphorical reliance in diverse literary and intellectual landscapes.
- At the same time there is nothing that a genuine dependent upon luxury resents more than to be told he is dependent.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post - I must either wrong my three dear girls or my venerable father, who is entirely dependent on me, in the Vale of Taunton; or some one.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - Mr. Ferrars, I believe, is entirely dependent on his mother.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - No one need be told how dependent all human social elevation is upon the prevalence of chastity.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - The dependent clause ( who saved my life ) is connected with the main clause ( this is the sailor ) by the pronoun who , which refers to sailor .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - Total differentials of different orders of a function; several dependent variables.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
