self-imposed

Padre Goyo got back to Mexico in May from a three-month hiatus that he called a self-imposed exile in Europe.

Near the end of his self-imposed quest to get to the bottom of the big Warum?

I quote Immanuel Kant in my preface, defining enlightenment as mankind coming out of its self-imposed immaturity.

Get help, advocate for yourself, dial down your self-imposed parenting standards.

Courage in the face of senseless, self-imposed danger is the coin the realm.

It was out of the question that he should return to the Residency before he began his self-imposed mission.

Still girls are told they ought to wait patiently, and not to be eager for self-imposed duties.

A dozen times he approached the door in an angry revulsion against his self-imposed test, and a dozen times passed on.

When he came back at last to the house, Myra was there, busy at her self-imposed tasks in those neglected rooms.

The patient then withdraws into himself, and in his self-imposed isolation, he conjures up imaginary companionship.