self-sufficing

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Even at this self-sufficing period of her life Margaret's journals were full of prayer and aspiration.

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward

America is the only civilized country in the world that is virtually self-sufficing as regards the primary requirements of her economic life.

From Morals of Economic Internationalism by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)

In other words, Europe had ceased to be self-sufficing, the very life of its industries and its urban populations being dependent upon foreign importations from the most distant regions.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop

But this is seriously affected by that doctrine which attempts to regard the Cosmos as self-governing and self-sufficing, needing nothing, and failing in nothing.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

Calm, cold, lonely, self-sufficing—and self-sufficing, too, because he must be so, because he had none other to whom to turn—that was his character, and viewing him in that manner I had always judged him.

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie