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- —that there mingled in her regal beauty something of the too-quick, diffident, plebeian disdain.†
p. 143.9diffident = hesitant and unassertive
- He had a diffident manner and a nervous giggle.†
p. 159.7 *
- She, too, had a giggle but it was not nervous, and a great deal of manner but it was not diffident.†
p. 159.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(diffident) hesitant and unassertive -- often due to a lack of self-confidence
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)