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Uttal

    • IPA: /ˈdɪfɪdəns/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. The state of being diffident, timid or shy; reticence or self-effacement.
  2. (obsolete) Mistrust, distrust, lack of confidence in someone or something.

Exempel

  • I have the same diffidence in my feelings that most public speakers have, and am apt to think that others can speak better and more edifying than I can.
  • "I was passing by," he began to stammer, trembling with his diffidence, "I—happened to be passing along this way, and so—er—as I was passing this way, I says to myself, says I, 'I'll just stop into the shop a minute.'
  • [Charles, King of France]: We have been guided by thee hitherto,
  • And of thy cunning had no diffidence:
  • One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.

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