All 3 Uses of
timorous
in
Alias Grace
- The cornered woman; the penitential dress falling straight down, concealing feet that were surely bare; the straw mattress on the floor; the timorous hunch of the shoulders; the arms hugged close to the thin body, the long wisps of auburn hair escaping from what appeared at first glance to be a chaplet of white flowers — and especially the eyes, enormous in the pale face and dilated with fear, or with mute pleading — all was as it should be.†
Chpt 4
- to confide in him - timorously
Chpt 4 *timorously = timidly
- She walks tentatively, as if blind, but her eyes are wide open, fixed upon DuPont with the timorousness, the tremulousness, the pale and silent appeal, which Simon — he now realizes — has been hoping for in vain.†
Chpt 13timorousness = timidity
Definition:
timid (fearful) or shy