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