Crossword clues for self-restraint
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-restraint \Self`-re*straint"\, n. Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions.
WordNet
n. exhibiting restraint imposed on the self; "an effective temperateness in debate" [syn: temperateness]
Usage examples of "self-restraint".
Among the surprises of the unfolding drama, as tensions increased, was the extent to which the ardent, disputatious John Adams held himself in rein, proving when need be a model of civility and self-restraint, even of patience.
The antinovel of the second half of the twentieth century focused solely on objects, but my universal asceticism went further than the antinovel, because I wrote -- exercising the ultimate self-restraint -- only blank forms!
Among the top two or three phyles is the New Atlantans, or neo-Victorians, who have, in reaction against the moral centerlessness of the late 20th century, adopted a social system rounded on the customs of self-restraint, formality, and romanticized chivalry of the 19th.
Only you must moderate your ecstacies, for I cannot love a man who cannot exercise self-restraint.
But the worst of foolish laws is, that when the insurgent spirit casts them off, it is but too ready to cast away with them the genial self-restraint which these fretting trammels have smothered beneath them.
I enjoyed in advance my meritorious action, and I was quite vain to see my self-restraint come to such a pitch that I was able to live in close intimacy with a pretty girl without any other desire than that of rescuing her from the shame into which she might have fallen if she had traveled alone.
I had to summon all my powers of self-restraint to my assistance when I heard this extravagant proposal as coming from a man who was so discreet in most things, but my astonishment was increased when I saw the abode of these fifteen young noblemen of rich Pomerania.
Jierdan's loss of self-restraint proved to her that the continual disrespect Sydney, and especially Entreri, had shown for him had fueled the flames of discontent to the verge of explosion.
Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker.
When Snape said nothing, Narcissa seemed to lose what little self-restraint she still possessed.
The pain of a lifetime of lies grew with each step until his rage threatened to tear apart what was left of his self-restraint.