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Definition of Timorously
1. Adverb. In a timorous and trepid manner.
Definition of Timorously
1. Adverb. In a timorous manner. ¹
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Definition of Timorously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timorously
Literary usage of Timorously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church Cyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Church Doctrine, History by Angelo Ames Benton (1883)
"... timorously (for she began to have nn inkling of the journey she was traveling)
she admitted that ehe did. "Now, exclaimed her somewhat amused querist ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... not in bright colours ; without force of representation ; without strength of
body ; not vigorously ; not actively ; timorously ; with dejection. ..."
3. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"[ pavidus ], with fear, fearfully, timorously : fugere, L. pavidus, adj. ...
pavidum blandita, timorously, 0.—Making limor- <nu: metus, ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1884)
"All day long he sleeps securely in his snug moss- woven nest ; and only when the
dim shades of night begin to gather does he venture timorously out among ..."
5. The Self-revelation of God by Samuel Harris (1886)
"He timorously pleads that it is possible to have some knowledge of God ; or if not
... Instead of timorously pleading to be allowed some belief in God in a ..."
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