self-restraint
noun
restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.
self-restraining
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a word derived from
self-restraint.
Example Sentences
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These two countries are called superpowers, but the name is illusory, since the power they have to level the earth and each other is self-restraining.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the noblest and most amiable thing that can be seen is power mixed with gentleness, the reposing, self-restraining attitude of strength.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
There are, however, men who are no fools, that are headlong in their language as in their acts, because of their want of forbearance and self-restraining patience.
From Character by Samuel Smiles
Honest, industrious, and self-restraining men will make a very bad social organization prosper; while vicious, idle, and reckless citizens will bring to ruin the best that ever was, or ever will be, invented.
From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
Good men, honest men, accurate men, righteous men, patient men, self-restraining men, fair men, modest men.
From Town Geology by Charles Kingsley
