self-disciplinen.

1612 I. M. tr. Most Famous Hist. Meruine i. 94 There lay pagan slain on pagan, misbeliefe on vnbelieuing, while Drohes smiled to see selfe religion, selfe discipline and law confound one another.

1659 Epitome of New Man 90 For I think if reason, with their own discipline, will not helpe them, they must be damned, for all the help of man, but selfe discipline is mighty powerful.

1697 M. Sylvester Holy Confidence Well Improved viii. 43 And seeing so many Eyes may be fix'd upon you, what strict Self-discipline and exemplary Blamelessness ought you to have?

1763 J. Macknight Truth Gospel Hist. Shewed i. §6. 49 These habits are produced by much reflexion and self discipline.

1796 Ld. Glenbervie Diary 15 Oct. (1928) I. 87 Every young person..should be conducted to form himself to such habits of self-discipline.

1838 E. B. Pusey Let. 13 Aug. in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) II. xx. 45 His careful self-discipline is..calculated in this self-indulgent age to do much immediate good.

1886 Myra's Jrnl. of Dress & Fashion Jan. 14/2 Whatever the social status of a woman who lives in this condition of permanent disorder may be, she belongs really to Bohemia, by withdrawing from all rules and self-discipline.

1905 Times 23 Dec. 11 The results will be a healthy mind in a healthy body, an increase in self-discipline and true manliness.

1946 Nature 27 July 113/1 The man who pursues truth for its own sake and studies science in an impersonal way, with rigorous self-discipline, is really showing his belief in a religion and is taking up a religious attitude.

1962 N. Coward Diary 6 Aug. (2000) 511 It is a sad comment on contemporary values that a beautiful, famous and wealthy young woman of thirty-six should capriciously kill herself for want of a little self-discipline.

2002 Western Horseman Jan. 100/1 Handling horses successfully also requires more self-discipline than many people are willing to exercise.