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Adjective: self-reliant  self ri'lI-unt
  1. (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment
    "By the end of the decade, two-thirds of central Los Angeles had been paved over to make room for the myth of self-reliant families"
    - autonomous, self-directed

See also: independent, self-reliance

Encyclopedia: Self-reliant

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self-realization
self-referent
self-referential
self-reformation
self-regard
self-registering thermometer
self-regulating
self-regulation
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self-reliance
self-reliant
self-renewal
self-renewing
self-renunciation
self-report inventory
self-report personality inventory
self-reproach
self-reproof
self-respect
self-respectful
self-respecting