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Self-distrust   /sɛlf-dɪstrˈəst/   Listen
Self-distrust

noun
1.
Lack of self-confidence.  Synonyms: diffidence, self-doubt.





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"Self-distrust" Quotes from Famous Books



... proved that it was no hesitation of weakness. Elizabeth could wait and finesse; but when the hour was come she could strike, and strike hard. Her natural temper indeed tended to a rash self-confidence rather than to self-distrust. "I have the heart of a King," she cried at a moment of utter peril, and it was with a kingly unconsciousness of the dangers about her that she fronted them for fifty years. She had, as strong natures always ...
— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green
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... collisions had often been repeated at the same point; for in the memory of both they left an association of dread with the particular topics which had occasioned them: Gwendolen dreaded the unpleasant sense of compunction toward her mother, which was the nearest approach to self-condemnation and self-distrust that she had known; and Mrs. Davilow's timid maternal conscience dreaded whatever had brought on the slightest hint of reproach. Hence, after this little scene, the two concurred in excluding Mr. Grandcourt ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
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Words linked to "Self-distrust" :   timorousness, timidness, self-doubt, unassertiveness, confidence, hesitancy, timidity, diffidence, hesitance


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