Dependency /(?)/

pl. Dependencies

1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

   Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other.

   So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England.

2. A thing hanging down; a dependence.
3. That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.

   This earth and its dependencies.

   Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances.

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.