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the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions
- a man of extraordinary self-containment, he refused to lose his temper even in the most trying of circumstances
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“Self-containment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-containment. Accessed 30 Sep. 2022.
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