Definitions

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  • adjective Exhibiting or experiencing fear; timid.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Timid

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  • adjective rare Timid; fearful.

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  • adjective fearful, timid

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

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Latin pavere, to fear

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Examples

  • 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 2006

  • Like a pavid kid in the talons of an eagle, that young creature trembled in his huge Milesian grasp.

    Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006

  • 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 1886

  • 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 William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • 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 William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • 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 William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • It works ... pavid: Hi Simon, Thanks for the review.

    MakeUseOf.com 2008

  • 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 Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire.

    Burlesques 2006

  • 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 Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • An Account of the EngUfh Cohny in New South Wales; by pavid collins.

    Bibliotheca historica 1782

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  • Afraid; timid.

    May 12, 2008