Usually means: Humility in behavior, dress, attitude.
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  1. modesty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. modesty: Merriam-Webster
  3. modesty, modesty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. modesty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. modesty: Collins English Dictionary
  6. modesty: Vocabulary.com
  7. Modesty, modesty: Wordnik
  8. modesty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. modesty: Wiktionary
  10. modesty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. modesty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. modesty: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Modesty, modesty: Dictionary.com
  14. modesty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. modesty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Modesty (Corradini sculpture), Modesty (sloop), Modesty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Modesty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. modesty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. modesty: Rhymezone
  20. modesty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. modesty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. modesty: FreeDictionary.org
  23. modesty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. modesty: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. modesty: Legal dictionary

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  1. Modesty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modesty: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. modesty: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modesty: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See modesties as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (modesty)

noun:  The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
noun:  Moderate behaviour; reserve.
noun:  (specifically) Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness.

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