There is a problem with the noun 'modesty'. It carries a positive connotation because it expresses the knowledge of one's own possibilities and manifests itself mostly through a shy, disinterested or timid attitude ('her modesty is equal to her talent'). But there is another meaning that demeans the first: limitedness, mediocrity ('the modesty of his condition, of his achievements'). Modesty as a moral quality, is opposed to [..]
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