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Meanings of excessive timidity in English

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Usage of excessive timidity in English
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Boldness and excessive timidity are the two extremes to be avoided.
Female Scripture Biography, Volume I
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Her excessive timidity results in the phrasing of most of her comments as questions.
Bones Are Forever
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I was, indeed, extremely awkward, and my excessive timidity was increased by my pride.
The Count's Millions
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Every thing in her features spoke of excessive timidity.
Within an Inch of His Life
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An excessive timidity had arisen from this abnormal sensitiveness.
Original Short Stories — Volume 05
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I have vivacity, courage, firmness, elevation, and excessive timidity.
The Women of the French Salons
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An excessive timidity had come to me from this aptitude to suffer on account of everything.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
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Awkwardly and with the bearlike roughness of excessive timidity I put my arms about her, drew her to me tentatively.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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Erythrophobia, that is to say the habit of inopportune and constant blushing, is another of the commonest forms of excessive timidity.
Poise: How to Attain It
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I have before alluded to the excessive timidity of the cattle here, perhaps arising from the infrequency of strangers in these regions.
The Roof of France; Or, the Causses of the Lozère
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An accident, unimportant in itself, but which shows the excessive timidity of the little sagoins detained us some time at the mouth of the Tuamini.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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Excessive timidity has cut down the dose until it has ceased to produce a real effect upon the disease.
The Stark Munro Letters / Being series of twelve letters written...
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