Definition of Modesties

1. Noun. (plural of modesty) ¹

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Definition of Modesties

1. modesty [n] - See also: modesty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Modesties

modernizers
modernizes
modernizing
modernly
modernness
modernnesses
moderns
moders
modes
modes of thought
modest proposal
modest proposals
modester
modestest
modesties (current term)
modestly
modestness
modesty panel
modesty panels
modi
modi operandi
modica
modicity
modicum
modicums
modifiabilities
modifiability
modifiable

Literary usage of Modesties

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness by Jane Hume Clapperton (1885)
"All men whose opinion is worth having, prefer the simple and genuine girl of the past, with her tender little ways, and pretty bashful modesties, ..."

2. Home Life in Russia by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1854)
"These modesties, wound before and behind, all that which was not calculated to effect the perdition of their admirer, but they allowed him to guess that it ..."

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