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What does self-possessed mean?

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Adjective
  1. in full control of one's faculties, and having a firm belief in one's abilities; confident, assured and poised
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These mostly young men were a self-possessed and supremely self-confident group, all residing at the apex of wealth and literacy.
The children, in contrast, are curiously poised and self-possessed.
What I do envy, self-possessed control freak that I am, is other people's ability to lose themselves in unfettered delight.
The kind of self-possessed girls we've met through doing this come in and think nothing of modelling some Clinique foundation.
Bureaucrats sufficiently self-possessed to speak in that kind of unequivocal language are few and far between.
It's easy to imagine why the land-lady's self-possessed daughter wouldn't fall for him and why her lonely, schoolteaching mother might.

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