Both Uses of
self-effacing
in
Gone with the Wind
- Around Melanie's tactful and self-effacing person, there rapidly grew up a clique of young and old who represented what was left of the best of Atlanta's ante-bellum society, all poor in purse, all proud in family, die-hards of the stoutest variety.†
Chpt 4.41
- She was seeing through Rhett's eyes the passing, not of a woman but of a legend—the gentle, self-effacing but steel-spined women on whom the South had builded its house in war and to whose proud and loving arms it had returned in defeat.†
Chpt 5.63 *
Definition:
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(self-effacing) modest and reluctant to draw attention to yourself