- a variation of self-sufficient.
self-sufficing
Example Sentences
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In other words, Europe had ceased to be self-sufficing, the very life of its industries and its urban populations being dependent upon foreign importations from the most distant regions.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop
The praise of life is that one is self-sufficing, taking less out than he put into the storehouse of civilization.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight
But Eastern manners need scarcely be called in to explain a sentiment which we find repeated by one who is generally esteemed the most self-sufficing of Europeans.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
It is a spiritual and temporal organisation of small extent, yet of a certain self-sufficing completeness.
From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von
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 Muir, Pearson McAdam
