*pendency*

{ } n. State of being appendant; appendance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dependencies 1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thing hanging down; a dependence. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

This earth and its dependencies. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Dependence is more used in the abstract, and dependency in the concrete. The latter is usually restricted in meaning to 3 and 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A detachment or separation from a former connection. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Equi- + pendency. ] The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The state of impending; the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon; also, that which impends. “Impendence of volcanic cloud.” Ruskin.
Syn. -- imminence, imminency, impendence, forthcomingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Independence. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Give me, ” I cried (enough for me),
“My bread, and independency!” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) Doctrine and polity of the Independents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mutual dependence; as, interdependency of interests. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Propensity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attentive deliberation. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]