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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1632
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Timorous, adj. (Late ME and e.m.E. timorouse (1455) causing fear or dread.) —1632 Lithgow Trav. vi 262.
Wee came to the most scurrile and timorous discent of the whole passage
