self-depending

The difference is that, while the soul knows itself as within something else, the Intellectual-Principle knows itself as self-depending, knows all its nature and character, and knows by right of its own being and by simple introversion.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

By a Club, a Woman executive; of some audacity; restless or self-depending: admiring intellect of solid kind tho 'maybe lacking it.

The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note Edward Prime-Stevenson 1905

Slowly his gaze ranged over the floor -- up to the galleries -- up -- up to the swinging dome -- in all architecture nothing so nearly a self-depending sky.

The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866

These two years had made a man of the rough, idle, pleasure-loving boy, and a man after the Ironsides 'fashion, grave, self-contained, and self-depending.

Under the Storm Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

What wonder then, that in some tribes filial piety has been wont to relieve superannuated parents from an existence devoid equally of joy and of hope; and that in others parental love may have even dictated the exposure — with a view to their perishing — of feeble, sickly, and deformed children, incapable of being nurtured into self-sustaining and self-depending life?

A Manual of Moral Philosophy 1852

That fearless candour, and that self-depending integrity which generally attends the finest qualities and noblest dispositions, rendered him careless of the frowns of those whom he discovered to be rather crafty rivals than generous competitors, and determined him rather to despise opposition than to conciliate esteem.

The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805