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Definition of Modesties
1. modesty [n] - See also: modesty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modesties
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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