self-mastery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of self-mastery
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Devin’s bark is indicative of the endless hours working at self-mastery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
Researchers have found that toddlers who are read to become children who are "more likely to enjoy strong relationships, sharper focus, and greater emotional resilience and self-mastery."
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2021
Along with these two novels about acquiring or losing self-mastery, Tevis published 19 short stories between 1954 and 1963, many of them clever “what if?” tales, sometimes ending with an ironic Twilight Zone twist.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2021
For both men, expeditions are tests, as much internal as external, and they’re eager to see what can be found at the outer boundaries of their self-mastery.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 24, 2020
The weakness of modern personality comes out well in the measureless overflow of criticism, in the want of self-mastery, and in what the Romans called impotentia.
From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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