timorous🔊

Fearful; afraid; timid.

📑 Synonyms: fearful shy timid

💬 Quotations

Since I knew what to feare, my timerous heart hath dreaded three things: a blazing starre appearing in the aire: a State Comet, I mean a favourite rising in a Kingdome, a new Opinion spreading in Religion: these are Exorbitancies: which is a formidable word: a vacuum and an exorbitancy, are mundicidious evils.

Nathaniel Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America

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