self-help
noun
the act of providing for or helping or the ability to provide for or help oneself without assistance from others.
self-helpful
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a word derived from
self-help.
Example Sentences
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How hard it was to give help, and at the same time to teach the poor to be self-helpful!
From Honey-Sweet by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
They were all delighted with him; such a child, and yet so bold and self-helpful, making himself quietly at home, and answering such questions as were put to him modestly and well.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
Occasionally a group of college-bred girls came up without escort—alert, self-helpful and serene.
From The Spirit of Sweetwater by Hamlin Garland
Let him be self-helpful, think and do for himself, and he will have the better chance of success.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852 by William Chambers
Born at Newburyport, in 1779, he was brought up by excellent parents near Boston, who practiced the old-fashioned system of making him hardy and self-helpful.
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
