self-restrained

noun

restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.

Origin:
1765–75

Related forms

self-re·strained, adjective

self-re·strain·ing, adjective

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self-restraint

—n
	restraint imposed by oneself on one's own feelings, desires, etc

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"... throughout the ages down to modern times, conditions of imprisonment, what with overcrowding, idleness, and all their attendant evils, have been such that not only the person but also to a deplorable extent the personality has been "confined or restrained." The problem of the betterment of our physical prison conditions goes hand in hand ... with the problem of re-creating and releasing personality "deep-dungeoned in self," of giving scope to the forces that tend upward, of counteracting and rendering harmless the already dominant tendencies toward evil."

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