self-dependence
- a word derived from dependence.
Example Sentences
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As Frederick Douglass once wrote of personal freedom, "...there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within."
From Salon • May 17, 2025
She says that the video presents a display of exploration and self-dependence.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2014
But Mill went on to explain why such aid is sometimes necessary: Energy and self-dependence are, however, liable to be impaired by the absence of help, as well as by its excess.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2012
He said growing and selling food had given him an improved sense of self-dependence.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2011
The power that abides in wealth adds marvellous force to the suitor's tale; but there is, be it owned, that in poverty which, when allied with a sturdy self-dependence, appeals wonderfully to a woman's mind.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James
