Unsustained

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Source: tatoeba (8251164)

This writer seems to think this a self-evident proposition, which needs no proof; for although he has used it in argument a number of times, he has left it unsustained by any thing but his naked assertion.

Source: tatoeba (12204621)