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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.

Greek

192. akrasia -- want of power
... to lack of self-control, self-indulgence. From akrates; want of self-restraint --
excess, incontinency. see GREEK akrates. (akrasian) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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1466. egkrateia -- mastery, self-control
... egkrateia Phonetic Spelling: (eng-krat'-i-ah) Short Definition: self-mastery,
self-control Definition: self-mastery, self-restraint, self-control, continence. ...
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1467. egkrateuomai -- to exercise self-control
... contain, be temperate. Middle voice from egkrates; to exercise self-restraint (in
diet and chastity) -- can(-not) contain, be temperate. see GREEK egkrates. ...
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4997. sophrosune -- soundness of mind, self-control
... See 4998 (). Word Origin from sophron Definition soundness of mind, self-control
NASB Word Usage discreetly (1), self-restraint (1), sober (1). ...
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193. akrates -- powerless, impotent
... 193 (an adjective, derived from 1 "without" and 2904 , " power") -- properly, in
continent, ie lacking self-control (self-discipline, self-restraint; used only ...
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463. anoche -- a delaying, forbearance
... forbearance. From anechomai; self-restraint, ie Tolerance -- forbearance. see GREEK
anechomai. (anoche) -- 1 Occurrence. (anoches) -- 1 Occurrence. 462, 463. ...
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Library

And with what Moderation and Self-Restraint those Men Used their ...
... Book 3 Chapter 31. And with what moderation and self-restraint those men
used their wives appears chiefly in� 31. And with what ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books/chapter 31 and with what.htm

As, Then, this Act of Self-Restraint, which in Appearance is one ...
... Chapter LXIV. As, then, this act of self-restraint, which in appearance
is one and the same� As, then, this act of self-restraint ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter lxiv as then this.htm

The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self-Restraint.
... The Stromata, or Miscellanies. Book II. Chapter XX."The True Gnostic Exercises Patience
and Self-Restraint. ... For God's greatest gift is self-restraint. ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xx the true gnostic exercises.htm

The Mosaic Law the Fountain of all Ethics, and the Source from ...
... I mean valour, and temperance, and wisdom, and justice, and endurance, and patience,
and decorum, and self-restraint; and in addition to these, piety. ...
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The True Excellence of Man.
... The same is the case with self-restraint and licentiousness. ... So the Sabbath,
by abstinence from evils, seems to indicate self-restraint. ...
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Commandment Eighth. We Ought to Shun that which is Evil, and do ...
... "But listen," says he, "to the things in regard to which you have not to
exercise self-restraint, but which you ought to do. Restrain ...
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Discipline
... a small matter compared with the moral training which they had gained"a small matter,
compared with the habits of obedience, self-restraint, self-sacrifice ...
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But Let us Come to These Two Commentaries which He Alone Excepts ...
... the general condemnation and renunciation which he pronounces upon all the rest
of his works; we shall see with what modesty and self-restraint he conducts ...
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On the Fast of the Ten Month, viii.
... I. Self-restraint leads to higher enjoyments. ... II. The teaching of the four yearly
fasts is that spiritual self-restraint is as necessary as corporeal. ...
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Otherwise, if Everything which Goes against Origen and his ...
... But I have subjoined a copy of it to this book, so that you may understand what
pain you gave me and with what brotherly self-restraint I bore it. ...
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Thesaurus

Self-restraint (2 Occurrences)
Self-restraint. Self-respecting, Self-restraint. Selfrighteousness . Noah
Webster's Dictionary ... Multi-Version Concordance Self-restraint (2 Occurrences). ...
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Temperate (6 Occurrences)
... 27). The reflexive meaning of "self-mastery," "self-restraint," is equally
well established in the classics and Septuagint. Thus ...
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Temperance (3 Occurrences)
... 27). The reflexive meaning of "self-mastery," "self-restraint," is equally
well established in the classics and Septuagint. Thus ...
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Growing (31 Occurrences)
... a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue
to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint. ...
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Impotent (5 Occurrences)
... force; weak; feeble; infirm. 2. (a.) Wanting the power of self-restraint;
uncontrolled; ungovernable; violent. 3. (a.) Wanting the ...
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Drusilla (1 Occurrence)
... of her and Felix, refused to satisfy their request in the way they desired, and
preached to them instead concerning righteousness and self-restraint and the ...
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Continence (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Self-restraint of desires, appetites, passions.
Multi-Version Concordance Continence (1 Occurrence). ...
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Continency (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Self-restraint; self-command. 2. (n.)
The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and ...
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Childbirth (24 Occurrences)
... a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue
to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint. ...
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Self-control (14 Occurrences)
... Selfcontrol, Self-control. Self-controlled . Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.)
Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command. Int. ...
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Bible Concordance

Self-restraint (2 Occurrences)

Galatians 5:23 good faith, meekness, self-restraint.
(WEY)

1 Timothy 2:15 Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.
(WEY NAS)

Subtopics

Self-restraint

Related Terms

Temperate (6 Occurrences)

Temperance (3 Occurrences)

Growing (31 Occurrences)

Impotent (5 Occurrences)

Drusilla (1 Occurrence)

Continence (1 Occurrence)

Continency (1 Occurrence)

Childbirth (24 Occurrences)

Self-control (14 Occurrences)