A WORD A DAY.
RELIANCE. We have the idea of reliance expressed every day when we hear that someone “pins his faith” on something. Reliance is a “binding again,” as the Latin re and ligare Indicate. The old French relict meant “to fix or fasten again.” Both the act of dependence on a person or thing with full trust, as well as that on which dhe depends and in which one confides, are called reliance. In the early reventeenth century we find that the reposing of one’s faith on or in some person or thing was the usual significance of the word. To-day we use reliance quite as much in connection with facts or statements as in connection with persons. Reliance is sure dependence, ground for absolute trust, confident rest. It is used in an actual physical sense, as well as in a mental and moral sense. Accent the second syllable of re-li’-ance. Sound e as in event,, i as in ice, a as in account, ce as s. "That my reliance might be wholly upon and not on man.” '
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Southland Times, Issue 21627, 12 February 1932, Page 6
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180A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21627, 12 February 1932, Page 6
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