What is the meaning of self-possessed?

In full control of your faculties.
- usage: "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"
- synonyms: collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained

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