self-distrust
noun
lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
self-distrusting
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a word derived from
self-distrust.
Example Sentences
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Therefore a self-distrusting Christian can say, and say without exaggeration or presumption, 'I can do all things in Christ, strengthening me from within.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
Her resolution astonished her friends, for they knew her to have a very timid and self-distrusting character, and the situation in which she was thus suddenly placed would have appalled even a stout heart.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
Worse yet, what must he think of me as a wife?” she asked herself, and each question left her more bitterly humiliated, more self-distrusting, more unhappy.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger
It is true that the wealthy heiress had lured on her self-distrusting lover to make a declaration which he had not contemplated; but who will charge her with unmaidenly conduct?
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
With mingled shame and penitence she reviewed her spiritual declensions, and with an humbled, self-distrusting spirit renewed her neglected covenant with the God and guide of her youth.
From Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons by Arabella W. Stuart
