self-reliant

[ self-ri-lahy-uhnt, self- ]

adjective

Origin of self-reliant

First recorded in 1840–50

And she credits her mother for helping to establish who that woman was early on: independent, free, self-reliant.
Diane von Furstenberg: How I Learned to Love My Wrap Dress | Lizzie Crocker | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The workers are treated respectfully and are able to earn a self-reliant living.
China Has a Dwarf Amusement Park | Nina Strochlic | June 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The right loves to bash New York's Citi Bike system, but bike share embodies the privatized, self-reliant ideals they espouse.
Why Conservatives Should Love Bike Share | Daniel Gross | June 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
To what degree are we as Americans truly self-made and self-reliant?
Is Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ the Great American Novel? | Michael Gorra | August 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. Locke

The trait is not rare in mankind in general, but it is exceptional in men of a character so self-reliant and decided as Nelson.
The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) | A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
But you must be self-reliant, and put them on the list of experiments.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 | Various
It's a good House—good boys—manly, self-reliant, purposeful.
The Varmint | Owen Johnson
But the terms of peace were not to the taste of the enterprising and self-reliant Huguenots of Languedoc and Guyenne.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots | Henry Baird

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