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self-raised

  • a word derived from raised.
    raised
    adjective
    fashioned or made as a surface design in relief.

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Mruvka has been working on the Look for three years and is launching with about $10 million in self-raised investment capital.

From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2010

I regard them as the original inhabitants of this land, self-raised, as they call themselves in their own tongue.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

This news precipitated me from my self-raised pinnacle of honour.

From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A considerable improvement over this tasteless mass is self-raised bread.

From General Science by Bertha M. Clark

He was a self-raised man, known to be dependent upon his own exertions, and liked from the willingness with which he gave his help to accused persons on their trials.

From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude