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Definition of Self-reliance
1. Noun. Personal independence.
Generic synonyms: Independence, Independency
Derivative terms: Autonomous, Self-reliant, Self-sufficient
Definition of Self-reliance
1. Noun. the capacity to rely on one's own capabilities, and to manage one's own affairs; independence not to be dependent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-reliance
Literary usage of Self-reliance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1918)
"The Transcendental ideas which chiefly occupied Hawthorne's thought in the long
romances were the doctrines of self-reliance, of compensation, ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"The Transcendental ideas which chiefly occupied Hawthorne's thought in the long
romances were the doctrines of self-reliance, of compensation, ..."
3. The Chief American Prose Writers: Selected Prose by Norman Foerster (1916)
"The relation between the doctrine of self-reliance and the doctrine of the
Over-Soul is clearly indicated by Emerson in an address delivered before the ..."
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