self-constraint

“There was no harm in his saying it,” she replied, with great self-constraint, forcing herself to speak coldly instead of angrily.

The fact is, he has overestimated the strength of his own powers of self-constraint.

He sat down with visible self-constraint when Charmian invited him to do so.

There were no sickness, no straggling, nor feelings of self-constraint.

He endeavours to maintain in her presence that self-constraint she had enjoined.