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in one's own right

adv. As a consequence of one's own skill, qualification or state, rather than that of another

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in one's own right

adv. by reason of one's own ability or ownership etc.; "she's a rich woman in her own right rather than by inheritance"; "an excellent novel in its own right" [syn: in his own right, in her own right, in its own right]