单词 | over-timorous |
释义 | > as lemmasover-timorous over-timorous adj. Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈtɪm(ə)rəs/ , U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtɪm(ə)rəs/ ΚΠ 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. A Their ouertimerous cowardise. a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) 203 That kind of superstition stiled δεισιδαιμονία, which imports a frightful & over-timorous notion of the Deity. 1966 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 46 435 Expressed in terms that Latin Americans ordinarily use only with each other, and most over-timorous North Americans are afraid to use at all. < as lemmas |
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