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1646 R. Abbot Milk for Babes 16 Were he not Almightie all these waies, he could not be self-sufficiently blessed in himselfe, neither could he be almightily sufficient for us.

1757 Test 16 Apr. 131 Self-sufficiently they have declined to act in concurrence with men used to business.

1871 G. Robson & S. Taylor tr. I. A. Dorner Hist. Protestant Theol. I. ii. i. iv. 222 We are in untruth if we have an existence outside of God; if we..shut ourselves up anthropocentrically [Ger. anthropocentrisch] and self-sufficiently into a circle reposing in itself.

1906 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Irish Yesterdays 81 Every self-respecting evening paper and most of the magazines had something sufficiently—or self-sufficiently—illuminating to say about Karma or the Mahatma.

1969 Rev. Educ. Res. 39 133 To help students grow increasingly able to solve their own problems, independently and self-sufficiently.

2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) xii. 205 An isolated and culturally distinct Mayan group who lived self-sufficiently in a rain forest.