self-sufficing

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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

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 Ranke, Leopold von

He finds lonely meditation so inspiring that he is too indifferent to the troubles of less self-sufficing or clear-sighted human beings.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Paraguay was an isolated and almost self-sufficing commonwealth.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.

To be self-sufficing will be the first precaution taken by our present enemies, in order that blockade may no longer be a weapon in our hands, so far as their necessary food is concerned.

From Another Sheaf by Galsworthy, John