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self-limiting

[ self-lim-i-ting ]

adjective

  1. limiting oneself or itself:

    a self-limiting authority.

  2. (of a disease) self-limited.


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Other Words From

  • self-limi·tation noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-limiting1

First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences

The course flies by, full of inspiring tools and NLP techniques for breaking self-limiting patterns of thought and behaviors.

Ron Paul is self-limiting, Newt Gingrich is self-aggrandizing, and Rick Santorum is self-righteous.

I know that the very same self-limiting discussions took place at Okurasho, the Japanese Ministry of Finance circa 1995-1998.

And certainly these seem incompatible with self-love, however cautiously self-limiting.

They, the millions upon millions of self-limiting ones, were the servants.

A few, through sheer luck, had been blown into self-limiting bits by duodec.

Such self-limiting laws prescribed by Divine wisdom and love do not place man beyond Divine control.

Being a great man (if as democracies seem to think being a great man is a disease) is at least a self-limiting disease.

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