self-limiting
adjective
limiting oneself or itself.
self-limitation
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a word derived from
self-limiting.
Example Sentences
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“That’s a self-limitation on the administration’s part,” he argued.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
To a civilization shaped by unappeasable human will and ambition Gandhi counterposed a civilization organized around self-limitation and ethical conduct.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
A sense of self-limitation in no way curbed his efforts, though; he sometimes labored 14 hours a day in ill-paid laboratory research.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2016
Like Lawyers Holmes, Cardozo and Brandeis, Lawyer Frankfurter is a firm believer in judicial self-limitation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Does the self-limitation of Jesus mean that the Deity was lessened in any way during the incarnation?
From The New Theology by R. J. (Reginald John) Campbell
