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self-distrust
[ self-dis-truhst, self- ]
noun
- lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
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Other Words From
- self-dis·trustful adjective
- self-dis·trusting adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of self-distrust1
First recorded in 1780–90
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Example Sentences
Her natural temper indeed tended to a rash self-confidence rather than to self-distrust.
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Deeper, more sickening than death, the first faintness of self-distrust came over me.
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Every novel of the past ten years has been more or less a study in sentiment and self-distrust.
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Self-distrust is more to be dreaded than foreign interference or Rebel despotism.
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There are two things in Scripture which I have never been able to think of without strong movements of fear and self-distrust.
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