Modesty ( page 244 ).
Questions.
1. What is modesty in the general sense? In what specific sense is the word also used? 2. What is bashfulness? diffidence? coyness? reserve?
Examples.
For silence and chaste —— is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
If a young lady has that discretion and ——, without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it.
His shrinking —— was often mistaken for a proud ——.