bashfulness

Anglais

Étymologie
Dérivé de bashful avec le suffixe -ness.

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  1. Timidité.
    • I, smiling in his face, took the letter, and immediately catching gently hold of his shirt sleeve, drew him towards me, blushing, and almost trembling; for surely his extreme bashfulness, and utter inexperience, call'd for, at least, all the advances to encourage him. — (John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1749)

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