self-possessed

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And to that list you might add Kid Congo Powers, a self-described “queer man, Mexican American, Chicano, self-taught, self possessed weirdo” who calls his own playing “an expressionistic blob of sound.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022

As the messages poured in, Wilhelm remained pale but self possessed.

From Time Magazine Archive

With his hat on he becomes assured and self possessed quite as Gen. Dawes grows less tense, less nervous when his fingers are warmed by the bowl of his celebrated pipe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Self′-kin′dled, kindled of itself; Self′-know′ing, knowing of one's own self: possessed of self-consciousness.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

She was too self possessed not to have been well loved as a child.

From Joe Burke's Last Stand by Wetterau, John Moncure