reliance
/ɹɪˈlaɪ.əns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Your reliance on his expertise may be misplaced."
- "[…] his days and times are past And my reliances on his fracted [i.e. broken] dates Have smit my credit:"
- "How unfavourable is Chance, said Arabella fretting at the Disappointment, to Persons who have any Reliance upon it!"
- "It was out of his power to support his son at either university; but a wealthy neighbor offered assistance; and, in reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value, Samuel was entered at Pembroke College, Oxford."
- "I put infinite reliance in your tact."
- "Hornblower could see in a flash that he could place implicit reliance on Bush’s seamanship."
Etymology
Etymology tree English rely Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -āntia Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English reliance From rely + -ance.
Usage
Inflected Forms
reliances (plural)
relyance (alternative)