self-sufficient
adjective
able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance.
self-sufficing
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a variation of
self-sufficient.
Example Sentences
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Despite His so-called self-sufficiency, man is not very self-sufficing, after all.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick
It is a spiritual and temporal organisation of small extent, yet of a certain self-sufficing completeness.
From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke
Each nation strives by means of an exclusive possession of colonies to become self-sufficing.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
In some men, the passion to succeed is clogged by the fear of failure; in others, the sense of their greatness is self-sufficing and indisposes them to effort.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
But Eastern manners need scarcely be called in to explain a sentiment which we find repeated by one who is generally esteemed the most self-sufficing of Europeans.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
