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self-de·pen·dent | \ ˌself-di-ˈpen-dənt 
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\Definition of self-dependent
: marked by dependence on one's own resources or exertions
Left early to his own guidance, he had begun to be self-dependent while yet a boy …— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The first known use of self-dependent was in 1642
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