unostentatiousness

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His conversation was remarkable in manner for perfect unostentatiousness, clearness, and self-control, and in matter for breadth and minuteness of political information.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

The homeliness and unostentatiousness of the middle class American were captivating.

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen

I had a feeling, anyhow, that unostentatiousness of approach might not be bad.

From The Firefly of France by Angellotti, Marion Polk

A prohibitory tariff in that direction would "protect" some of the unostentatiousness of social life that befits a republican people.

From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard