timorousness
- a word derived from timorous.
Example Sentences
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It’s not that her timorousness doesn’t make sense, given events, but she’s so relentlessly belittled, in both the writing and direction, that it’s hard to have any real sympathy for her.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2015
The first indication of this book’s spark lies in its account of his timorousness at leaving journalism behind.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2011
The opening night in the metropolis of Bozeman, Mont., dauntless Adam coughed away timorousness, tapped his baton, swung into full-rounded and accurate melody.
From Time Magazine Archive
Facing that infinitely powerful but inevitably ignorant and cruel corpus of opinion, the individual must needs adopt caution and fall into timorousness.
From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by Nathan, George Jean
At the last minute he substituted for the more reliable Flyaway his Tiny Tim, a dapper little solicitor, not more than sixty, who to the timorousness of the hare unites some of her speed.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 by Various
