self-conˈtrol
[self- 1 a.]
1. Control of oneself, one's desires, etc.
| 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. III. 260 note, The Perfection of Virtue is from long Art and Management, Self-Controul. 1799 Wordsw. Ruth 154 A Man who without self-control Would seek what the degraded soul Unworthily admires. 1832 Tennyson Œnone 142 Selfreverence, selfknowledge, selfcontrol. 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede xxxix, As if all self-control had forsaken him, [he] grasped Adam's arm. |
2. Self-government.
rare.
| 1850 Marsden Early Purit. (1853) 26 If it be not only an independent but a national church, the right of self-control is one that it cannot part with without disloyalty. |
Hence
self-conˈtrolled,
-conˈtrolling adjs.| 1875 Manning Mission Holy Ghost viii. 210 The human frame, so strong, so dignified, so *self-controlled in its perfections. |
| 1835 Lytton Rienzi i. iv, The deep and *self-controlling mind of Adrian. 1873 Spencer Study Sociol. vi. 131 A comparatively self-controlling nature, capable of sacrificing present ease to future good. |