1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood. [ 1913 Webster ]
Declaration of Independence (Amer. Hist.), 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
. In the United States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
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