Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sufficing for one's self or itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing external aid; self-sufficient.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective able to provide for your own needs without help from others
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Examples
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And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Beth Arnold: The Great Unplug And Recharge Experiment: 28 Days Without The Internet Beth Arnold 2011
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And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Beth Arnold: The Great Unplug And Recharge Experiment: 28 Days Without The Internet Beth Arnold 2011
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In fact, Steward believed gay men were loners - who "should live alone and learn to like it, and to be self-sufficing" - despite the community that saved his papers, made a pilgrimage to him in his old age and produced this fascinating slice of American history.
Portrait of a taboo artist Andrew Holleran 2010
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In fact, Steward believed gay men were loners - who "should live alone and learn to like it, and to be self-sufficing" - despite the community that saved his papers, made a pilgrimage to him in his old age and produced this fascinating slice of American history.
Portrait of a taboo artist Andrew Holleran 2010
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Company of phalanstery of Own way the phalanstery one is a self-sufficing city.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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What constitutes a polis is an association of households and clans in a good life, for the sake of attaining a perfect and self-sufficing existence.
The recovery of virtue Burke's Corner 2008
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What constitutes a polis is an association of households and clans in a good life, for the sake of attaining a perfect and self-sufficing existence.
Archive 2008-09-01 Burke's Corner 2008
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Company of phalanstery of Own way the phalanstery one is a self-sufficing city.
La vie rêvée 2008
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My proud, self-sufficing temper gradually dissolved into a soft melancholy, which in turn has been swallowed up by those delights of motherhood which have been its reward.
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‘And he who lacks something is not in all points self-sufficing?’
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