What is an example of discipline?

8 Example Of Self Discipline

 Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.

Was raised in the strictest discipline.

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Discipline is defined as a field of study or is training to fix incorrect behavior or create better skills.

An example of discipline is American literature.

An example of discipline is a time out for a child who has just pushed his sibling.

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Discipliner.

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A branch of knowledge or teaching.

The discipline of mathematics.

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The result of such training or control.

• Self-control or orderly conduct.
• Acceptance of or submission to authority and control.

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A set of rules or methods, as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order.

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A branch of knowledge or learning.

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To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control.

The sergeant disciplined the recruits to become soldiers.

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A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

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To train someone by instruction and practice.

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Punishment intended to correct or train.

Subjected to harsh discipline.

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A controlled behaviour; self-control.

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A set of rules regulating behaviour.

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Treatment that corrects or punishes.

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The definition of discipline is to punish someone for their behavior.

An example of discipline is to give detention to a student who keeps talking during lectures.

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An enforced compliance or control.

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A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

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A state of order based on submission to authority.

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A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

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Disciple.

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To teach someone to obey authority.

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To subject to discipline; train; control.

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A punishment to train or maintain control.

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To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.

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A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.

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A system of rules, as for a church or monastic order.

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To punish.

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To impose order on someone.

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To impose order on.

Needed to discipline their study habits.

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To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

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Multidisciplinary.

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Disciplinal.

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Disciplinarian.

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Disciplinary.

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Interdisciplinary.

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ORIGIN OF DISCIPLINE

 

• Middle English from Old French descepline from Latin disciplīna from discipulus pupil disciple

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”) and discipulus (“pupil”), from discere (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).

  From Wiktionary

A child being disciplined.

Discipline Sentence Examples

• The discipline was there before the Reformers.

• Sirian's coldness had never struck her as anything but rigid discipline and cool thinking.

• All the Maize - - - 1,39 more important questions of church discipline and all decisions regulating the doctrine and practice of the church are dealt with by the synods.

• But in everything which concerns what is called discipline - the exercise of that jurisdiction over the people with which the office-bearers of the church are conceived to be invested, he is assisted by lay-elders.

• Entire conformity with the Scottish Church was maintained, and strict discipline was enforced by pastoral visitations, kirk-sessions and presbyteries.