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单词 self-sufficing
释义

self-sufficingadj.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfsəˈfʌɪsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfsəˈfaɪsɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, sufficing adj.
Etymology: < self- prefix + sufficing adj., after self-sufficience n., self-sufficiency n. Compare earlier self-sufficient adj., self-suffisant adj.
Not needing or relying on external assistance, support, or aid. Formerly also: †having excessive confidence in oneself or one's abilities; arrogant; presumptuous (obsolete). Cf. self-sufficient adj. 1, 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [adjective] > self-sufficient
suffisanta1340
sufficient for (to) oneself1382
substantive1543
self-suffisant1589
self-sufficient1596
self-sustaining1598
self-contained1605
self-subsisting1608
self-supporting1632
self-dependent1642
self-full1642
self-subsistent1646
self-sufficing1647
self-relying1648
self-depending1669
independent1670
self-sustained1675
unbenefitable1688
self-sufficed1709
self-supported1736
self-containing1826
self-reliant1834
autarkic1883
the mind > emotion > pride > excessive self-confidence > [adjective]
over-trusty?c1225
assured1477
self-wise1573
confident1600
flush1604
crested1619
sufficienta1625
self-sufficient1628
self-confiding1647
self-trustinga1660
self-secure1679
self-assured1711
cocksure1842
secure1859
self-sufficing1874
ten feet tall1962
1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis 134 Black ignorance did first begin To blurre thy beauteous Image, and deface The glory of thy self-sufficing grace.
1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 84 Why not indulge his self-sufficing state, Live to himself..A wise eternal Epicure?
1713 tr. P. Poiret Divine Œconomy II. iv. 41 The Independent and Self-sufficing Divine Idea.
1800 W. Wordsworth Poet's Epit. in Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) II. 167 A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual All-in-all.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 164 So great, quiet, complete and self-sufficing is this Shakspeare.
1874 A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 157 In spite of some fond fit Of self-sufficing thoughts.
1935 J. O'Neill Land under Eng. xvii. 236 Before my descent, I had lived a lonely, self-sufficing life.
1997 V. Tejera Rewriting Hist. of Anc. Greek Philos. iii. 41 The pace of the verse is..sometimes really ponderant like a self-sufficing thinker rapt in thought.

Derivatives

self-suˈfficingness n. now rare the state or condition of not needing or relying on external assistance, support, or aid; = self-sufficiency n. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > self-sufficiency
sufficiencec1384
suffisancea1450
self-sufficiency1598
autarky1617
self-dependencea1620
self-sufficience1623
self-subsistencea1631
self-support1632
self-fullness1668
self-reliance1668
self-dependency1749
self-sustainment1779
self-sustenance1786
self-sufficingness1811
substantiveness1821
self-sustentationa1832
self-containment1841
self-sufficientness1846
self-containing1850
self-supportedness1862
rugged individualism1898
1811 S. T. Coleridge in Courier 14 Sept. That ill-timed overweening sense of their own self-sufficingness.
1881 F. W. H. Myers Wordsworth 13 A picture..of hardy English youth,—its proud self-sufficingness and careless independence of all human things.
1944 H. Wodehouse One Kind of Relig. iii. 20 The Epicurean spending himself in teaching self-sufficingness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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