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self-ˈdiffidence
[self- 1 d.]
Self-distrust.
1658Baxter Saving Faith §12 Yet is it with a mixture of self-diffidence, when I think what a person I dissent from. 1712M. Henry Life of P. Henry iv. (1765) 91 His great Modesty and Self-diffidence. 1872J. L. Sanford Est. Eng. Kings 334 This reserve was caused much less by self-diffidence than by self-conceit.
So self-ˈdiffident, † -diˈffiding adjs., self-distrustful.
a1791Wesley Serm. xlix, This very consideration..would make all who now speak upon the subject, exceedingly wary and *self-diffident.
1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 52 A low, bashful,..*self-diffiding..disposition. |
