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What does diffidence mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being diffident, timid or shy; reticence or self-effacement.
  2. (obsolete) Mistrust, distrust, lack of confidence in someone or something.
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Was the miners' apparent diffidence at the event motivated by political considerations?
Here, as you see me now, in tropical but dripping diffidence, I am the author of that tome.
And it hurts when we have this clumsy, plodding exchanges because he was my best friend, and now we can't seem to talk to each other without diffidence and discomfort.
Present migration policies have only increased irregularity, trafficking, marginalization, social tension, diffidence and racism.
It is with diffidence and humility that I greet the ultimate constitutional power in the Republic, the Presidential electors.
So I think with some reluctance, with some diffidence, I come down on the positive side of the question.

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