rare. [-NESS.] TIMIDITY.

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1681.  Lett. to Person of Honour conc. D. of M’s Mother, in Harl. Misc. (1746), IV. 158/1. He hath so much of James’s Timidness, that they can huff and over-awe him to Things most opposite to his Judgment.

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1828–32.  in Webster.

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1843.  Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Sinless Child, 4.

        Sweet Eva! shall I send thee forth,
  To other hearts to speak?
With all thy timidness and love,
  Companionship to seek?

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1889.  Stevenson, Master of B., ii. He looked up … with a kind of timidness.

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