"self-existent" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From self- + existent.",
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      "form": "more self-existent",
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      "form": "most self-existent",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "Existing without having been created."
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          "text": "Campbell exquisitely says, \"'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view:\" and let the heart be thankful from its inmost depths for that imaginative and self-existent faculty which first lends enchantment to the distance.",
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        "Existing independent of any extrinsic sustaining force."
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          "sustain",
          "sustain"
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          "force",
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  "word": "self-existent"
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  "etymology_text": "From self- + existent.",
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