Definition of "self-relying" []

• Depending on one's self; self-reliant.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Her long fair hair fell down in a profusion of curls, on each side of a face, whose blue eyes, lovely features, and dignified simplicity of expression, implied at once a character of gentleness, and of the self-relying resolution of a mind too virtuous to suspect evil and too noble to fear it."
• "The second class is selfish also, encroaching, bold, self-relying, always outnumbering the other and recruiting its numbers every hour by births."
• "“Never, sayest thou?” rejoined he, with a smile of dark and self-relying intelligence."