Significats de great diffidence en anglès

Mr. Lincoln said he submitted this proposition with great diffidence.

Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.

With great diffidence I venture to say a word about the most perplexing and embarrassing question in the world:

The opinion that they are inferior in the faculties of reason and imagination must be hazarded with great diffidence.

It is not without great diffidence, Sir, that I rise to address you on a subject which has been nearly exhausted.

Mr. President and Gentlemen,-Itwas with great diffidence that I accepted the invitation of your President to respond to a toast to-night.

After breakfast, I went with great diffidence into the common sitting-room, where there was about ten of the inmates sitting smoking, playing checkers, etc.

He adjusted his clothes, looked timidly up and down, and then cleared his throat and began his tune with an air of great diffidence.

Ameni had often blamed him for his too great diffidence and his want of ambition, when he had willingly let others pass him by.

The man who resolved to commit himself to such a task should come forward with apparent difficulty,-withgreat diffidence, and even with actual difficulty.

So with great diffidence I asked the lecturer while he was arranging his things, if he was not going to put water into the jar.

She lost her mother very young; her father-speakingwith great diffidence, from a very slight and imperfect knowledge-appearedto me a harsh and ungenial man.

This meaning is suggestive, though we translate it as knowledge, or foreknowledge rather, with the greatest diffidence.

Of course, they show a greater diffidence of their peace with them, than with any other power.

"I feel great diffidence," he writes Brevoort, March 3, 1819, "about this reappearance in literature.

"I shall tell you," said he, "what I see-whatI foresee-andthen, with great diffidence, what I advise.