self-directing

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Latin directus "straight," past participle of dirigere "set straight" (see direct (v.)).

She is not recognized as a self-directing, responsible agent.

They assume the attitude of self-directing and self-responsible bodies.

We can make its impulses follow a rut, so to speak, but we cannot make them free and self-directing.

There are always opaque facts as well as self-directing agents.

The soul may be a mechanism, but it is a self-directing and self-executing ...

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adj unrestrained politically

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adjective. unrestrained politically