1. Not depending from or on something.
1649. Milton, Eikon., x. Wks. 1851, III. 414. If the power of the Sword were any where separate and undepending from the power of Law. Ibid. (1659), Hirelings, Ibid., V. 387. While they are thus upheld undepending on the Church, on which alone they anciently depended.
2. Not dependent; independent.
1649. Milton, Observ. Peace Ormond, Wks. 1851, IV. 569. [To] claim an absolute and undepending Jurisdiction.
1712. [P. Metcalfe], Life St. Winefride, 19. That with an undepending Freedom, they might be more absolute Masters of short time.
1724. Swift, Drapier’s Lett., Wks. 1755, V. II. 60. But the landed undepending men … will never receive it.
