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Meanings of timidity in English
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Examples for "timorousness"
Examples for "timorousness"
1
Presently, impatient of his own timorousness, he turned the device off again.
2
He gazed now at the men before him, not with timorousness or trepidation.
3
A sweet timorousness enveloped her and something tingled-sheknew not what.
4
He felt a sudden timorousness, like a child caught redhanded doing something wrong.
5
Neither her gayety nor her usual excess of timorousness returned.
1
At length one day he looked up from his paper with a kind of timidness, and says he, Mr.
2
Here Bernibus entered the dialog, throwing away his timidness with one quick motion and saying to Wagner, You scoundrel!
3
Jim Leslie is a Walden, and the Walden men ain't so well known for their timidness as they are for their getting what they're after.
4
"It is good to feel warm once more," she said, an odd timidness in her manner.
Usage of timidity in English
1
Mr Strange will know how to overcome his timidity I am sure.
2
These last words proved to me the natural timidity of the king.
3
The following minute gave proof of the timidity of the American antelope.
4
In so many ways, in fact, Nayra surprised Jalila with her timidity.
5
The reforming thrust of the early years dissipated into a disappointing timidity.
6
He smouldered and rumbled, a natural timidity preventing the splendour of fireworks.
7
Those who knew him well said his remoteness was due to timidity.
8
Any belief in deities or other higher forces is born of timidity.
9
In his contests for personal influence there was no timidity, no flinching.
10
There is a great deal of this moral timidity in college life.
11
The timidity and procrastination of the court could be overcome no further.
12
Its timidity and the anxiety of the mother-bird should be especially emphasized.
13
But in his presence a wall of diffidence and timidity encompassed her.
14
I was appalled, firstly from timidity, secondly out of very well-founded modesty.
15
Mistaking the meaning of his silence for timidity, the uncle spoke again.
16
She gazed at him, her timidity and nervousness returning in full tide.
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Timidity through the time
Timidity across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common