MEANING
In a timid or apprehensive manner.
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- speak timorously
- ask timorously
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She asked timorously whether she could enter.
He spoke timorously at first.
The child approached timorously.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Invariable adverb. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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