Crossword-Solution: DIFFIDENCE 10 letters, 47 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Speaking the words with sweet diffidence, she said: “I hope none of you will care less for me than you did before.

Cruncher, with some diffidence, explained himself as meaning “Old Nick’s.” “Ha!” said Miss Pross, “it doesn’t need an interpreter to explain the meaning of these creatures.

This lingering diffidence seemed to give a peculiar value to what was definite and assured in her manner; it made it seem like an accomplishment, a beautiful talent, something that one might compare to an exquisite touch in a pianist.

That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure—if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.

One day he said, a little hesitatingly, and with somewhat of diffidence-- 'Triangle, would you mind coming down to my stateroom a minute, and have a little talk on a certain matter?' I went with him at once.