Bashfulness

Bashfulness is very unbecoming and awkward, while modesty is peculiarly fascinating to every one.

The Mother's Book 1831

"Bashfulness," repeated Miss Larolles; "Lord, you don't conceive the thing at all.

Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Fanny Burney 1796

Bashfulness a symptom of melancholy; of love-melancholy; cured

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Bashfulness on account of his being an illustrious man

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana 2006

[Bashfulness in Mr. Lovelace, my dear!] — Indeed, gay and lively as he is, he has not the look of an impudent man.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Bashfulness, in fact, is so distinct from modesty, that the most bashful lass, or raw country lout, often become the most impudent; for their bashfulness being merely the instinctive timidity of ignorance, custom soon changes it into assurance. 50

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

Bashfulness is an inconvenient quality, which a great authority has stated to be "the distinguishing character of a booby."

Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Sarah Annie Frost

Bashfulness at defiance, you will urge the Pres. to go to the balls, to ride with you in your coach, and to get Mr. Scott at least to go with you.

A Portrait of Old George Town Grace Dunlop Peter

Bashfulness on the contrary, like a dead weight on languid and effeminate persons, not daring to refuse or contradict anybody, makes jurors deliver unjust verdicts, and shuts the mouth of counsellors, and makes people say and do many things against their wish; and so the most headstrong person is always master and lord of such, through his own impudence prevailing against their modesty.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

+Bashfulness and trepidation+, especially in the presence of females, is the rule.

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