conquest
noun
the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
self-conquest
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a word derived from
conquest.
Example Sentences
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And the direct experience of God is still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest.
From Time Magazine Archive
You correctly quoted the principle of Buddha's philosophy of life as self-conquest.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the explicit record of a man's physical self-conquest, literally step by step, which is in turn the measure of his inner toughening, adjustment and growth.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the first ardour of her self-conquest, after she had renounced her resolution of flight, Romola had made many timid efforts towards the return of a frank relation between them.
From Romola by George Eliot
The purpose of it, so far as it affected action, was self-conquest.
From Bunyan by James Anthony Froude
