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Self-reliant

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

    "The Constitution deliberately makes the President and the Congress competitors as well as partners. The Founding Fathers created an elaborate system of checks and balances to keep each partner self-reliant while still assuring their interdependence. No brief account can fully capture the complexity of this relationship, in which each partner contributes his own share of stubbornness, pride, hostility, warmth, suspicion, skill, and affection."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment wordnet

Etymology

From self- + reliant.

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