in one's own right

Prepositional phrase

 * 1) As a consequence of one's own skill, qualification or status, rather than that of another.
 * His parents are wealthy, but he is a millionaire in his own right.
 * "Quarrelous" isn't a misspelling of "querulous" but a word in its own right.

Translations

 * Catalan: per mèrits propis
 * Finnish: omasta ansiostaan
 * French:
 * German: auf Grund eigener Begabung, aus eigener Kraft, aus eigenem Recht,, ,
 * Hungarian: saját jogán
 * Polish: w sobie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: и сам по себе
 * Slovak: zaslúžene, vlastnou zásluhou
 * Spanish: por sí mismo, por sus propios méritos, por derecho propio, por méritos propios
 * Turkish: ,
 * Welsh: yn ei rinwedd ei hun