The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-command \Self`-com*mand"\, n. Control over one's own feelings, temper, etc.; self-control.
Wiktionary
n. The conscious control of one's own behaviour
WordNet
n. the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior [syn: self-control, self-possession, possession, willpower, self-will]
Usage examples of "self-command".
As he watched the workings of her lips, the helpless misery in her young eyes, the endeavour for self-command and the struggles of womanly pride, Mallard remembered how distinctly he had foreseen this in his past hours of anguish.
This proneness to sudden accesses of violence and fury was the compensation which abated the effect of his ordinary craft and self-command.
A few, and they not the least powerful and terrific of the band, threw lowering looks, in which the fiercest passion was only tempered by habitual self-command, at those captives who still remained in their power, while one or two even gave vent to their malignant feelings by the most menacing gestures, against which neither the sex nor the beauty of the sisters was any protection.