timorously
English
Alternative forms
- timourously (rare)
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Adverb
timorously (comparative more timorously, superlative most timorously)
- In a timorous manner.
- 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 13, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
- When the dusk was gathering and Iping was just beginning to peep timorously forth again upon the shattered wreckage of its Bank Holiday, a short, thickset man in a shabby silk hat was marching painfully through the twilight behind the beechwoods on the road to Bramblehurst.
- 1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 5, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
- But at this moment Susanna opens the door (timorously, as if there might be a panther behind it) […]
- 1912, Arthur Stringer, Twin Tales:
- She stood there in a birdlike attitude of arrested movement, with her body pressed in close to the hedge, as though timorously anxious to escape his eye.
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in a timorous manner
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