independence

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The state or quality of being independent.

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Sufficient income for comfortable self-support; a competence.

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In botany, the abnormal separation of organs or parts which are usually united.

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The state of being independent; exemption from dependence upon another or others, or from another’s control; self-support or self-government.

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That which renders one independent; property or income sufficient to make one independent of others; a competency.

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The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one’s own affairs without interference.

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Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.

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the declaration of the Congress of the Thirteen United States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Britain.

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The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one’s own affairs without interference.

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The state of having sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.