pavid

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  1. adjective Exhibiting or experiencing fear; timid.

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  • It works ... pavid: Hi Simon, Thanks for the review. —  MakeUseOf.com
  • As eagles go forth and bring home to their eaglets the lamb or the pavid kid, I say there are men who live and victual their nests by plunder. —  Roundabout Papers
  • The clergy, a pavid flock, chattered their fears between the mouthfuls. —  Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
  • Like a pavid kid in the talons of an eagle, that young creature trembled in his huge Milesian grasp. —  The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
  • The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the —  Burlesques
 

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  1. Latin pavidus, from pavēre, to fear; see pau-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish pávido = Portuguese Italian pavido, from Latin pavidus, fearful, timorous, from pavere, be afraid.
 

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