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TIMOROUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does timorous mean?
• TIMOROUS (adjective)
The adjective TIMOROUS has 1 sense:
1. timid by nature or revealing timidity
Familiarity information: TIMOROUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Timid by nature or revealing timidity
Synonyms:
Context example:
cast fearful glances at the large dog
Similar:
timid (showing fear and lack of confidence)
Derivation:
timorousness (fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities)
timorousness (fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions)
Context examples
I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She had been summat timorous and down, said Mr. Peggotty, and had sat, at first, a little way off, at her spinning, or such work as it was, when Em'ly talked to the children.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Several witnesses were called who had known her for many years, and they spoke well of her; but fear and hatred of the crime of which they supposed her guilty rendered them timorous and unwilling to come forward.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as Jane Eyre: in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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