Definitions
training to improve strength or self-control
Word origin
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).
Used in a sentence
“The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.”
“The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.”
“Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.”
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