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Definition of Modestly
1. Adverb. With modesty; in a modest manner. "The dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'"
Definition of Modestly
1. adv. In a modest manner.
Definition of Modestly
1. Adverb. In a modest manner. ¹
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Definition of Modestly
1. modest [adv] - See also: modest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modestly
Literary usage of Modestly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Population Profile of the U.S., 1997 by Andrea Curry, Karen Mills, Janice Valdisera (2000)
"About four of every five White married-couple family renters could not qualify
to buy a modestly priced house, while 92 percent of their Black counterparts ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... modestly refused to ascend the throne, and some credit appears to have been
given to his own positive declaration that be was compelled to accept the ..."
3. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1915)
"He was a man of simple manners, a bachelor all his days, genial to his associates
but modestly averse to outside intercourse, and his culture outside of ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This canonical life was led also by women, who retired from the world, took vows
of chastity, dressed modestly in black, but were not bound to give of their ..."
5. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"If I had read the poems of Burns or Byron without any knowledge of their lives,
I should be justified, I think, in modestly inferring that they were men of ..."
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