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He was captivated by her freshness and beauty, her demureness, her ignorance of all things vicious.
WITHIN THE LAWMARVIN DANA
There was in the frock a demureness almost Quaker-like which as a foil for her beauty breathed the very essence of coquetry.
FLOOD TIDESARA WARE BASSETT
Under the little clerk's correctness and demureness there ran and mingled with her blood the warm undercurrent of a dream.
THE DIVINE FIREMAY SINCLAIR
Dotty thought of Harriet all the afternoon, and walked about the house with a demureness quite unusual.
DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOMESOPHIE MAY
There is a demureness, a restraint which reminds one that the atmosphere of far-away Castile is still upon them.
THE AMAZING ARGENTINEJOHN FOSTER FRASER
The severe charm, rigidity, and demureness of the Quattrocento is weakened into lackadaisical melancholy.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 3 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHER
She walked up the long interior with the demureness of a stockbroker's young wife out for the evening from Putney Hill.
THE PRETTY LADY ARNOLD E. BENNETT
The expression of her face was demureness itself, but the blue eyes sparkled with humour.
THE BISHOP AND THE BOOGERMANJOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
Demureness of appearance, refinement of manner, noble ideals are not at all inconsistent with powerful sex feeling.
THE NERVOUS HOUSEWIFEABRAHAM MYERSON
"I'm visiting Jane," she replied at length, with an affectation of demureness.
THE RIVERMANSTEWART EDWARD WHITE
WORDS RELATED TO DEMURENESS
- abasement
- bashfulness
- demureness
- diffidence
- docility
- fawning
- inferiority complex
- lack of pride
- lowliness
- meekness
- mortification
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- passiveness
- reserve
- resignation
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- sheepishness
- shyness
- subjection
- submissiveness
- subservience
- timidity
- timorousness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
- bashfulness
- celibacy
- chastity
- constraint
- coyness
- decency
- delicacy
- demureness
- diffidence
- discreetness
- humbleness
- humility
- inhibition
- innocence
- lack of pretension
- meekness
- propriety
- prudery
- purity
- quietness
- reserve
- reticence
- self-effacement
- simplicity
- timidity
- unobtrusiveness
- unostentatiousness
- unpretentiousness
- virtue
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.