refinement
noun
fineness or elegance of feeling, taste, manners, language, etc.
self-refinement
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a word derived from
refinement.
Example Sentences
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That ruthless self-refinement is sorely missing in the follow-up season of another series about older women mounting a showbiz comeback.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
It was a liberty of a purely moral kind, a liberty, that is, achieved at the cost of a great effort in self-discipline and self-refinement.
From Aspects of Literature by J. Middleton Murry
By self-refinement he has become a Nation's pattern.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
