restraint

Definition

something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures

Etymology

From Middle English restreynte, from Old French restreinte; more at restrain.

Example Sentences

• "Make sure all the restraints are tight."
• "At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it."
• "Try to exercise restraint when talking to your boss."

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