self-effacement love

self-effacement

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word self-effacement.

Examples

  • I gave up trying to interview them after a few minutes and like the audience I just watched in silent admiration and awe as these two East Coast-born, L.A.-raised Jewish teenagers (notwithstanding their birth certificates that said they were both in their seventies) regaled us with stories of the early days of rock 'n' roll and (with self-effacement) their seminal part in its development.

    Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011

  • I gave up trying to interview them after a few minutes and like the audience I just watched in silent admiration and awe as these two East Coast-born, L.A.-raised Jewish teenagers (notwithstanding their birth certificates that said they were both in their seventies) regaled us with stories of the early days of rock 'n' roll and (with self-effacement) their seminal part in its development.

    Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011

  • Khusraw exclaims: Then I said, 'In that case, my friend, you have made no hajj, you have not become a dweller in the station of self-effacement.

    Zahra N. Jamal, Ph.D.: Hajj Diaries: The Multiple Dimensions Of Muslim Pilgrimage Ph.D. Zahra N. Jamal 2011

  • I gave up trying to interview them after a few minutes and like the audience I just watched in silent admiration and awe as these two East Coast-born, L.A.-raised Jewish teenagers (notwithstanding their birth certificates that said they were both in their seventies) regaled us with stories of the early days of rock 'n' roll and (with self-effacement) their seminal part in its development.

    Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011

  • Anti-exceptionalism has clearly shaped his "leading from behind" profile abroad—an offer of self-effacement to offset the presumed American evil of swaggering cowboyism.

    Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism Shelby Steele 2011

  • Khusraw exclaims: Then I said, 'In that case, my friend, you have made no hajj, you have not become a dweller in the station of self-effacement.

    Zahra N. Jamal, Ph.D.: Hajj Diaries: The Multiple Dimensions Of Muslim Pilgrimage Ph.D. Zahra N. Jamal 2011

  • Jane Kirk, a Republican from Nelson, gushed over Mr. Huntsman's manners, his self-effacement and his low-key discourse.

    Huntsman Finds Center Stage Jonathan Weisman 2011

  • When he bows to foreign leaders, he is not displaying "otherness" but the counterculture Americanism of honorable self-effacement in which America acknowledges its own capacity for evil as prelude to engagement.

    A Referendum on the Redeemer Shelby Steele 2010

  • It is a privilege to work with Steve whose smarts and self-effacement are legendary in a town that rarely sees much of those qualities in combination.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • I gave up trying to interview them after a few minutes and like the audience I just watched in silent admiration and awe as these two East Coast-born, L.A.-raised Jewish teenagers (notwithstanding their birth certificates that said they were both in their seventies) regaled us with stories of the early days of rock 'n' roll and (with self-effacement) their seminal part in its development.

    Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • *hides*

    August 19, 2008