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timorous(dictionary)

timorous (iou)



timorous adjective. LME.
[Old French temoros, -reus from medieval Latin timorosus, from Latin timor fear, from timere: see TIMID, -OUS.]
a. Feeling fear; frightened, apprehensive, afraid. (Foll. by of, to do, lest.) Now rare. LME.
Dickens He..was rather timorous of venturing.
b. Subject to fear; easily frightened, timid. Formerly also, modest, reverential. L15.
Arnold Bennett She was..a timorous young thing, defenceless and trembling.
c. Proceeding from or indicating fear; characterized by timidity. L16.
Causing fear or dread. LME-M17.
timorously adverb LME.
timorousness noun L15.