self-effacingness

self-effacingness
Having the quality of humility.

John stated he had, "done his small part", with his usual self-effacingness.


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  • self-effacement — self effacing, adj. self effacingly, adv. self effacingness, n. /self i fays meuhnt, self /, n. the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility. [1865 70] * * * …   Universalium

  • Hard and soft C — A hard c vs. a soft c is a feature that occurs in many languages, including English, in which two distinct major sounds (phonemes) are represented by the Latin letter c . A hard c is pronounced as the voiceless plosive IPA| [k] (like in car );… …   Wikipedia

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