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self-constraint
self-constraint n.
Brit. 
/ˌsɛlfkənˈstreɪnt/
, /ˌsɛlfkənˈstreɪnt/U.S. /ˌsɛlfkənˈstreɪnt/
constraint imposed by oneself on one's actions; self-restraint./ˌsɛlfkənˈstreɪnt/ΚΠ
1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. ix. 170 The very outward handsom carriage of crosses and injuries, without any interior conformitie, costs us much self-constraint.
1766 tr. J.-F. Marmontel Moral Tales (ed. 2) I. 93 The height of misery is to pass one's life in fear and self-constraint.
1878 London Soc. Oct. 301/2 He was strong enough now to derive strength and benefit, and not harm, from the exertion and self-constraint.
1953 D. F. Pocock tr. E. Durkheim Sociol. & Philos. ii. 36 The act..cannot be accomplished without effort and self-constraint.
2013 South China Morning Post (Nexis) 3 Oct. 14 It is important for shop owners and tenants to exercise self-constraint and not to trespass on the pavement.
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