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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His only self-limitation, apparently, is plausible deniability — a moral framework that seems to be based on old episodes of “The Sopranos.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
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
To thoughtful citizens Mr. Devree's alternative remedy seemed more sensible: unworried self-limitation and severity on the part of reviewers.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it be so, it appears to the writer to be true in a different meaning of the word self-limitation from that in which it is applied to variola or typhoid fever.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
