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Definition of Self-restraint

1. Noun. Exhibiting restraint imposed on the self. "An effective temperateness in debate"

Definition of Self-restraint

1. Noun. Self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions. ¹

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Literary usage of Self-restraint

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"Moreover, if the man of self-restraint is to be held to be such, in that he has strong and bad desires which he successfully resists, it will follow that ..."

2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"Moreover, if the man of self-restraint is to be held to be such, in that he has strong and bad desires which he successfully resists, it will follow that ..."

3. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"The fact that self-control, self-restraint, or self-repression are important and valuable parts of a pupil's self-activity is emphasized by Thorndike in the ..."

4. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"The fact that self-control, self-restraint, or self-repression are important and . valuable parts of a pupil's self-activity is emphasized by Thorndike in ..."

5. Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis by Josiah Strong (1891)
"The meaning of the name in English is "the great, bright god of self-restraint. " After engaging in worship, the head of the house opened the ..."

6. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"censure is passed on him whose want of foresight or want of self-restraint is productive of suffering, if only the effect is ..."

7. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"censure is passed on him whose want of foresight or want of self-restraint is productive of suffering, if only the effect is sufficiently remote. ..."

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