self-dependent

We know that the reason makes itself known to man by the demand for the absolute—the self-dependent and necessary.

They do not appeal to the spaniel element in his nature; they make him free, erect, noble, and self-dependent.

He was also one of those self-dependent men who dislike to ask questions or advice from anyone.

They were also acts done in a period when men of letters were taught by social usage to be something less than self-dependent.

But sometimes chance or circumstance or wrong, sealing up her woman's nature, converts her into a self-dependent human soul.