modesty
noun
the quality of being modest; freedom from vanity, boastfulness, etc.
modesties
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pluralof modesty.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is no time for idle vanities," he said; "it's no time to indulge unreal modesties; and you have none of either if it were.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
We are not going to outrage your sweet modesties, or call blushes on your maiden cheeks.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
His conscience vexed him likewise, suggesting that his attitude had not been pure cousinly; and this shamed him, since he was still singularly unspotted from the world, noble modesties and decencies still paramount in him.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
I'm so het up I can't set still, an' besides, mebbe we can get the story the way it really happened, from somebody who ain't bound an' gagged an' chloroformed by such unbecomin' modesties.
From The Spoilers by Rex Ellingwood Beach
