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Definition of the day : « self-restraint »

  • noun control over one's actions
Example sentences :
  • In no duty towards others is there more need of reticence and self-restraint.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • Only by the exercise of a self-restraint which at first seems brutal can life be endured there.
  • Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson
  • And yet I could not help wondering at his natural temperance and self-restraint and manliness.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • Mary was proud of him, proud of his courage and self-restraint.
  • Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Courage, then, and self-restraint; and thus we shall foil their aims.
  • Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
  • The hunting of the one is carried on with self-restraint, of the others with effrontery.
  • Extract from : « The Sportsman » by Xenophon
  • His powers of self-restraint were great, but he had reached their limit.
  • Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • I was happy in her gratitude and in my powers of self-restraint.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • The necessity of prudence had exasperated his self-restraint.
  • Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad
  • The self-restraint was at an end: his psychology must have its way.
  • Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad