Citations:timorousness


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Besides, he brings up his sons to follow his steps; and if he findeth in any of them a foolish timorousness, (for so he calls the first appearance of a tender conscience,) he calls them fools and blockheads, and by no means will employ them in much, or speak to their commendations before others.