diffidences

At once, where I like, I mingle minds without reserve, encouraging reciprocal freedoms, and am forward to dissipate diffidences.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And how, like morning mists before the sun, must all diffidences and gloomy doubts, be chased away by it!

Pamela 2006

All misunderstandings, all doubts, all diffidences, will then be at an end.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

His sister says, he is always the first to break through the restraints, and to banish the diffidences, that will generally attend persons on a quite new acquaintance.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.

King Lear 2004

I promise you the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state; menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.

Act I. Scene II. King Lear 1914

Boleskey's sudden diffidences, self-depreciation, fits of despair, irritated him.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Boleskey's sudden diffidences, self-depreciation, fits of despair, irritated him.

Villa Rubein, and other stories John Galsworthy 1900

As he penetrated deeper into the nature, he found it honeycombed as it were, here and there, with beautiful, unexpected softnesses and diffidences.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

As he penetrated deeper into the nature he found it honeycombed, as it were, here and there, with beautiful unexpected softnesses and diffidences.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885