timorousness

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Timorousness had taken possession of her—the necessary and important words would not come into her mind, for anything.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

The first Publication of the following Poem having been entrusted to the Care of the Printer, it came, thro' either his Ignorance or Timorousness, extremely mutilated, and incorrect from the Press.

From Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740) by Anonymous

Timorousness had vanished; the soul that had woven its own music in solitude had been translated to a higher universe.

From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Zangwill, Louis

Timorousness, arising from an undue regard to the world, is too often a hinderance to religious profession.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus