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Meanings of very diffident in English

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Usage of very diffident in English
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For I was very diffident as to the outcome of such a step.
Violin Mastery: Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
2
He was an excellent fellow, seventeen years old, and very diffident.
Mark Twain's Speeches
3
The daughters were remarkably pretty, but very diffident.
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
4
Boys are very diffident about these matters, and require to be encouraged and comforted about them.
The Upton Letters
5
I was at first very diffident of this report, but have found that he was right.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
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But there was something very diffident again.
The Guardian
7
Matogee (Yellow Bear) was a natural humorous speaker, and a very diffident man at other times.
Indian Boyhood
8
Desire felt very diffident, they were such exclusive rooms, so old and settled and sure of themselves-andshe was so new.
The Window-Gazer
9
She was shy, very diffident, very young; but in the few things she said, he discerned-orfancied-thestirrings of a real taste-real intelligence.
Missing
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I have been very diffident in proponing any plan for their assistance, knowing that some former proposals have failed of accomplishing the end.
Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel
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He was embarrassed and awkward, as is usually the case with those who have seldom faced an audience, and who are naturally very diffident.
From Jest to Earnest
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He was very diffident; though longing to see Erica, he would yet have given anything to be able to transfer his work to his father.
We Two: A Novel
13
"Oh, you are very diffident, aren't you, sitting there so bashfully!"
A Rock in the Baltic
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