Self-control is the power to master your own urges and temper. Lose your self-control.
It works by strength of mind alone, with nothing outside to enforce it. Self-control is easier when the temptation is not in the room, which is the whole trick of it.
1nounself-controlThe power to master your own urges and temper by strength of mind alone.
“His self-control held until the last question of the interview.”
self-control is a quality.
Middle English
self
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English, today
self-control
From self- + control. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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