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Meanings of great diffidence in inglés
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Usage of great diffidence in inglés
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Mr. Lincoln said he submitted this proposition with greatdiffidence.
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Yet he approached them with greatdiffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.
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With greatdiffidence I venture to say a word about the most perplexing and embarrassing question in the world:
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The opinion that they are inferior in the faculties of reason and imagination must be hazarded with greatdiffidence.
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It is not without greatdiffidence, Sir, that I rise to address you on a subject which has been nearly exhausted.
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Mr. President and Gentlemen,-Itwas with greatdiffidence that I accepted the invitation of your President to respond to a toast to-night.
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After breakfast, I went with greatdiffidence into the common sitting-room, where there was about ten of the inmates sitting smoking, playing checkers, etc.
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He adjusted his clothes, looked timidly up and down, and then cleared his throat and began his tune with an air of greatdiffidence.
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Ameni had often blamed him for his too greatdiffidence and his want of ambition, when he had willingly let others pass him by.
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The man who resolved to commit himself to such a task should come forward with apparent difficulty,-withgreatdiffidence, and even with actual difficulty.
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So with greatdiffidence I asked the lecturer while he was arranging his things, if he was not going to put water into the jar.
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She lost her mother very young; her father-speakingwith greatdiffidence, from a very slight and imperfect knowledge-appearedto me a harsh and ungenial man.
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This meaning is suggestive, though we translate it as knowledge, or foreknowledge rather, with the greatestdiffidence.
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Of course, they show a greaterdiffidence of their peace with them, than with any other power.
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"I feel greatdiffidence," he writes Brevoort, March 3, 1819, "about this reappearance in literature.
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"I shall tell you," said he, "what I see-whatI foresee-andthen, with greatdiffidence, what I advise.