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