self-protection
self-defense
self-defence
fight back
se defendendo
combatives
self-assertiveness
defence
defense
seclusion
bumptious
self-assertive
abandonment
hara-kiri
combativeness
doings
take up the cudgel for
behavior
gamesmanship
behaviour
conduct
fencible
defensibility
white knight
day in court
wear
combatability
stand in the gap
apologia
assert oneself
temperateness
self-restraint
defensive attitude
self-offence
contend
defensive
fighting
self-assertion
took the law into one's own hands
scrap
combat
shield
fight
ward
protected
took law into one's own hands
defensor
asceticism
self-deprecation
ascesis
antipositional
self-renunciation
forbear
go into one's shell
beratement
self-destruction
self-ordination
defensibleness
power trip
self-control
self-discipline
defensibly
coolness
prosopon
tight-assed
calling into question
self-deletion
like turkeys voting for Christmas
nervelessness
defend
self-reliant
defendee
self-incrimination
demand for explanation
self-denial
help oneself
tenable
tutelage
dominating
peremptory
self-punishment
bossy
protection
self-defeating
restrainment
high-and-mighty
autocratic
contest
abstinence
magisterial
enemy
stand up
stick up
autoconfrontation

English words for 'the act of defending yourself'

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