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Self-restraining   /sɛlf-ristrˈeɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Self-restraining

adjective
1.
Used of nonindulgent persons.  Synonym: self-disciplined.





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... Woman lovely even to allurement; quick in apprehension and weak in judgment; with grace and dignity of sentiment, but no principle; credulous and indiscreet, yet artful; capable of sudden greatness or of crime, but not of a steadfast wisdom, nor self-restraining virtue. The second reveals Woman half-emancipated and jealous of her freedom, such as she has figured before or since in many a combative attitude, mannish, not equally manly; strong and prudent more than great or wise; able to control vanity, and the wish ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Words linked to "Self-restraining" :   nonindulgent, strict, self-disciplined


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