Definitions for self-restraint

self-restraint self-re·straint

Spelling: [self-ri-streynt, self-]
IPA: /ˈsɛlf rɪˈstreɪnt, ˌsɛlf-/

Self-Restraint is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 1809 anagrams from letters in self-restraint (-aeefilnrrsstt).

Definitions for self-restraint

noun

  1. restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.

Origin of self-restraint

First recorded in 1765-75

Examples for self-restraint

Courage, then, and self-restraint; and thus we shall foil their aims.

The hunting of the one is carried on with self-restraint, of the others with effrontery.

And yet I could not help wondering at his natural temperance and self-restraint and manliness.

Perhaps he had congratulated himself for his self-restraint in avoiding real adultery, real manipulation of women.

I was happy in her gratitude and in my powers of self-restraint.

In no duty towards others is there more need of reticence and self-restraint.

Mary was proud of him, proud of his courage and self-restraint.

This practice of self-restraint, called jishuku in Japanese, has become quite commonplace here in recent days.

Only by the exercise of a self-restraint which at first seems brutal can life be endured there.

His powers of self-restraint were great, but he had reached their limit.

Word Value for self-restraint
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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