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n. The state or quality of being modest.

n. Reserve or propriety in speech, dress, or behavior.

n. Lack of pretentiousness; simplicity.

n. The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.

n. Moderate behaviour; reserve.

n. Pudency, prudish avoidance of sexual explicitness.

n. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.

n. Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.

n. The quality of being modest; moderation; freedom from exaggeration or excess.

n. Retiring disposition or demeanor; disinclination to presumption, ostentation, or self-assertion; unobtrusiveness; reserve proceeding from absence of over-confidence or self-esteem.

n. Decorous feeling or behavior; purity or delicacy of thought or manner; reserve proceeding from pure or chaste character.

n. Synonyms Diffidence, Shyness, etc. See bashfulness.

To lose from modesty: with away.

n. The hare's-ear or thorough-wax, Bupleurum rotundifolium.

n. The bladder-ketmia or flower-of-an-hour, Hibiscus Trionum.

n. freedom from vanity or conceit

n. formality and propriety of manner

"It is high time for _true_ modesty to take the place of that _false modesty_ which has driven virtue, like an exile, out of the land, and peopled it largely with"

boldness    boastfulness    immodesty    extravagance    impudence   

modestly   

false modesty   

diffidence    bashfulness    shyness    humility    decorum   

humility    prudence    piety    politeness    generosity    simplicity    delicacy    decency    innocence    sweetness