0 the quality of not making yourself noticeable, or not trying to get the attention of other people: --
He has never been one for modesty or self-effacement.
But his devotees may consider the self-effacement a deprivation.
He has been my generous and unpaid consultant in so doing, for he knows that my natural self-effacement and reticence prevented me from making any reference to that important point.
It will be remembered when other and more martial exploits are forgotten, and not the least characteristic and admirable of its features was the dignified self-effacement.
I should like to pay him a tribute for the part that he has played, although, with a certain degree of modesty and self-effacement he failed to take the credit.
He had the most perfect good manners, based, as high good manners mostly are, on a dual foundation of self-confidence and self-effacement.
It is a modest request, made with my characteristic modesty and self-effacement.
Whatever be the cause—whether it be the cause of party movement, or the cause of the nation—that he serves, he serves it with complete self-effacement.
She spoke with characteristic self-effacement of those who suffer burglaries, without mentioning that, regrettably, she is one of them.
