Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being timorous; timidity; want of courage.
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- noun The property of being
timorous .
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- noun fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions
- noun fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities
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Examples
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Its main character is its incurable timorousness; it is forever grasping at straws held out by demagogues... its dreams are of banshees, hobgloblins, bugaboos.
Robert Lenzner: Plutocracy;The Rich Elite And The Rest Of Us Robert Lenzner 2011
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Later we take our longer strides, with secret timorousness, preferring a crowd of companions.
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Its main character is its incurable timorousness; it is forever grasping at straws held out by demagogues... its dreams are of banshees, hobgloblins, bugaboos.
Robert Lenzner: Plutocracy;The Rich Elite And The Rest Of Us Robert Lenzner 2011
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Others have pointed out the timorousness of what they've done, most notably E. J. Dionne and Ezra Klein.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Letter From 64 Senators... In an Alternate Universe RJ 2011
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Later we take our longer strides, with secret timorousness, preferring a crowd of companions.
Art and Literature 2009
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And gumption is always welcome (whereas the timorousness of anonymity will be quashed -- c.f. the A-Z of the blog I can't be bothered linking to at the moment).
Thoughts on Narnia Hal Duncan 2009
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Its main character is its incurable timorousness; it is forever grasping at straws held out by demagogues... its dreams are of banshees, hobgloblins, bugaboos.
Robert Lenzner: Plutocracy;The Rich Elite And The Rest Of Us Robert Lenzner 2011
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Others have pointed out the timorousness of what they've done, most notably E. J. Dionne and Ezra Klein.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Letter From 64 Senators... In an Alternate Universe RJ 2011
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Is this parochialism, this timorousness and lack of imagination, inevitable in a period like our own, when the unknown looms menacingly and one natural reaction is certainly to draw back, to find refuge in the familiar?
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McCoy saw an animal scurry through the tall grass with the tiny timorousness of a mouse.
TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009
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