Synonyms for modesty

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mod-uh-stee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɒd ə sti

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Définition of modesty

Origin : 1530s, "freedom from exaggeration, self-control," from Middle French modestie or directly from Latin modestia "moderation, sense of honor, correctness of conduct," from modestus "moderate, keeping measure, sober, gentle, temperate," from modus "measure, manner" (see mode (n.1)). Meaning "quality of having a moderate opinion of oneself" is from 1550s; that of "womanly propriety" is from 1560s.
La pudeur donne des plaisirs bien flatteurs à l'amant: elle lui fait sentir quelles lois l'on transgresse pour lui; (Modesty both pleases and flatters a lover, for it lays stress on the laws which are being transgressed for his sake.) [Stendhal "de l'Amour," 1822]

noun shyness

Example sentences :

All shall be imputed to that modesty which has ever so much distinguished you.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

There was a modesty in Bowser's tone that gave me a better opinion of him.
Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith

She was quite honest, and she served her father's customers with modesty.
Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous

If you will force my modesty to the confession I believe in my heart that it is a sapphire.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

She sobbed, and with a sudden feeling of modesty freed her wrists from his grasp.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

And now, if you will light one of these cigars, we will talk of you for a while, if your modesty will stand it.
Extract from : « One Day's Courtship » by Robert Barr

But his modesty would not permit him to take part in such a demonstration.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

So far as I could gather, his modesty was affronted by this revelation of his lower legs.
Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson

They were excited by the modesty, the circumspection, and the virtue of Imogen.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

And there she stopped and shivered, for her modesty caught cold at the very thought.
Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens

Antonyms for modesty

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