restraint
noun
a restraining action or influence.
overrestraint
-
a word derived from
restraint.
Example Sentences
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Luther Burbank, in an article on "The Training of the Human Plant," says: The curse of modern child life in America is overeducation, overconfinement, overrestraint.
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
