Able to provide for your own needs without help from others.
1She has practically everything necessary to a healthy and self-sufficing industrial life.
2They were facts-absoluteas the globe itself-regionsof wisdom, perfect and self-sufficing.
3Eventually there was Captain Dunning, god of this brief but self-sufficing microcosm.
4If any imperfect creature were self-sufficing, what would he have to enjoy?
5She is self-sufficing in a million respects in which we are not so.
6The village is still almost self-sufficing, and is in itself an economic unit.
7The example, by pre-eminence, of one self-sufficing work is the Bible.
8Again, experience always involved lack, need, desire; it was never self-sufficing.
9The more purely mental it is, the more independent or self-sufficing is it.
10They are boasting to-day that as a nation they are self-sufficing and self-supporting.
11Little Marian came and went, a living sunbeam, a self-sufficing thing.
12To be economically self-sufficing in order to be politically independent was the cardinal doctrine.
13To make a manual complete and self-sufficing is precisely what I have not intended.
14Up to that moment he had believed himself to be firm: he was self-sufficing.
15Indeed if anywhere such a self-sufficing organism did exist, we could never know it.
16Each country is to be, as far as possible, self-sufficing.