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单词 self-sufficing
释义 self-suˈfficing, ppl. a.
[formed after self-sufficient.]
= self-sufficient 1 and 2.
1687Norris Coll. Misc. 84 Why not indulge his self-sufficing state, Live to himself..A wise eternal Epicure?1799Wordsw. Poems Sentim., Poet's Epit. 31 A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual All-in-all.1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1858) 260 So great, quiet, complete and self-sufficing is this Shakspeare.1874A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 157 In spite of some fond fit Of self-sufficing thoughts.1893Traill Soc. Eng. Introd. p. xix, It is..in its earliest stages that Art is most distinctly independent and self-sufficing.
Also self-suˈfficingness = self-sufficiency 1 a.
1844Emerson Ess., Character 65 The face which character wears to me is self-sufficingness.1847–8De Quincey Protestantism Wks. 1858 VIII. 95 note, The Greek autarkeia.., self-sufficiency, or, because that phrase, in English has received a deflection towards a bad meaning, the word self-sufficingness might answer.1881Myers Wordsw. 13 A picture..of hardy English youth,—its proud self-sufficingness and careless independence of all human things.
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