Meanings of certain timidity in English

Mrs. Archer and her group felt a certain timidity concerning these persons.

This defect, common to his contemporaries, arose, possibly, from a certain timidity.

You told me once that you felt a certain timidity in publishing it.

A certain timidity and low estimate of my power have fettered me always.

The old lady, after a pause, spoke with a certain timidity:

For a certain timidity, and distrust of his own powers, grows upon the country parson.

In spite of the vitality with which he overflowed, there was a certain timidity attaching to him.

Paula had always shown a certain timidity toward my father, and appeared to be slightly afraid of him.

A certain timidity held me back.

She looked up at him without a trace of coquetry, rather with a certain timidity that feared possible rebuff.

And it surely implies a certain timidity of conscience; whereas the conscience of the sage should harbour neither timidity nor shame.

A certain timidity and consciousness had generally attended you, when this incident and this recess had been the subjects of conversation.

She was still under the spell when after the benediction Miss Betty asked, with a certain timidity, if she had liked the sermon.

A certain timidity which clung to Iris, a tremulous solicitude which marked her behaviour to him, became her, he thought, very well indeed.

It was not, of course, without some misgiving, without a certain timidity and distrust, that many Republicans were brought to the support of these measures.

"I suppose you were in the garden?" she said, with a certain timidity.