Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo trust; to have confidence in. · To depend; to be dependent upon. · To be intellectually contingent from; to stem from. · To fasten, fix, attach
From Middle English relien, from Old French relier (“fasten, attach, rally, oblige”), from Latin religo (“fasten, bind fast”), from re- + ligo.
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