- a variation of self-sufficient.
self-sufficing
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In Cornwall, however, the housewife still bakes her own bread and is in other ways more self-sufficing, and let us add more thrifty, than elsewhere.
From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. Dawson Scott
"The patient and Meg are extremely self-sufficing," she said, dropping into a chair.
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross
But this is seriously affected by that doctrine which attempts to regard the Cosmos as self-governing and self-sufficing, needing nothing, and failing in nothing.
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
He was not self-sufficing: he was only self-sufficient.
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
But God is not exhausted in the world, nor dependent upon it: He exists eternally in His Triune Being, self-sufficing, self-subsistent....
From Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Pearson McAdam Muir
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