autocontrollarsi

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Italian

Etymology

From auto- +‎ controllarsi.

Verb

autocontrollàrsi (first-person singular present mi autocontròllo, first-person singular past historic mi autocontrollài, past participle autocontrollàto)

  1. to control oneself; to restrain oneself
    • 1788 February 8, Publius, Il Federalista [The Federalist Papers]:
      Ma nell'organizzare un governo di uomini che dovranno reggere altri uomini, qui sorge la grande difficoltà: prima si dovrà mettere il governo in grado di controllare i propri governati, e quindi obbligarlo ad autocontrollarsi.
      In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
      (literally, “But in organizing a government of men who must sustain other men, here arises the great difficulty: first one must make the government able to control its governed, and then oblige it to control itself.”)

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