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  2. Enkrateia - Wikipedia

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    Xenophon was one of the first to write about enkrateia.. In Ancient Greek philosophy, Enkrateia (Greek ἐνκράτεια, "in power - from ἐν (en, “in”) + κράτος (krátos, “power”) is a state of power over something, usually a state of self-control and self-mastery where one holds power over one's own passions and instincts.

  3. Pureness - Wikipedia

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    Pureness may refer to: Purity (disambiguation) "Pureness" (Aya Ueto song) "Pureness" (Nana Kitade song) This page was last edited on 28 June 2016, at 06:28 (UTC ...

  4. Purity in Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Theravada Buddhism regards the path of self-purification as absolutely vital for reaching Nibbana.The main task of the Theravada Buddhist monk is to eradicate flaws in morality and character through meditation and moral cultivation, in alliance with the cultivation of insight or wisdom (), so that the purity of Nibbana can be achieved.

  5. Control (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Control verbs have semantic content; they semantically select their arguments, that is, their appearance strongly influences the nature of the arguments they take. [3] In this regard, they are very different from auxiliary verbs, which lack semantic content and do not semantically select arguments.

  6. Self-other control - Wikipedia

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    Accurate self-other control is needed either to avoid the occurrence of personal distress due to the another's negative affective state or to prevent our own affective state egocentrically biasing how we empathize with others. [1] [2] Self-other control is also helpful in other similar processes, such as theory of mind and perspective-taking. [1]

  7. Glossary of BDSM - Wikipedia

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    Submissive (or "sub" for short): A person that gives up control, either all the time or for a specified period (not to be confused with "bottom" or "slave"). Subspace: A psychological state caused by excitement and sense of "letting go" of control during a scene. Typically experienced by submissives, s-types, or bottoms during a BDSM scene.

  8. Purity - Wikipedia

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    Purity Dairies, a dairy company in Nashville, Tennessee, United States; Purity Factories, a food processing company in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Purity Distilling Company, an alcohol manufacturer involved in the Boston Molasses Disaster in the U.S.

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.