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Meanings of self-reliant in English
(Of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment.
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Usage of self-reliant in English
1
These are people who also want to be able to be self-reliant.
2
He does not believe in pampering children, but in making them self-reliant.
3
He looks quiet and strong; a self-reliant fellow would be my guess.
4
They and their parents were a breed unto themselves, self-reliant yet interdependent.
5
It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centred, self-reliant, and self-controlled.
6
He has never trained himself in nerve-control, being so stolid and self-reliant.
7
We're used to being cut off, and we are a self-reliant community.
8
And it was not merely the self-reliant, independence-seeking women who were discontented.
9
The children grew and developed into self-reliant, liberty loving men and women.
10
I couldn't wait to be self-reliant on every weedy inch of it.
11
Miss Sommerton rose and stepped with firm, self-reliant tread on the landing.
12
He stooped and kissed the self-reliant Miss West, who turned very pink.
13
Animated by these stern and self-reliant sentiments, he stepped upon the mat.
14
Perhaps circumstances have made me unduly self-reliant: on that others must judge.
15
She will grow firm and patient and self-reliant, I do not doubt.
16
He knew her self-reliant and had always guessed her sufficient to herself.
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