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self-command
[ self-kuh-mand, -mahnd, self- ]
self-command
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-command1
Example Sentences
If you are upset, you will lack the self-command to hear opposing views, without which you cannot even stand wisely on your own.
When the King showed his speech to the Chancellor, that wise minister forgot for a moment his habitual self-command.
She was white and trembling; but she stood in that dignity which strong feeling, kept down by self-command, always imparts.
I have made a copy of the words you must use, lest your self-command should be too severely taxed.
No encouragement of applause, Dannie––just a long sigh in secret: then a grim age of self-command.
Her self-command was infinite, for she must have had a thousand questions to ask.
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