PAVIDADJ.
fearful, timid, shy, quaking ...1656 rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin pavidus, fearful, trembling, from stem of pavere, to quake with fear FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1656 - Glossographia Anglicana Nova, or, A Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words....., Thomas Blount, 1656; Pavid, fearful, timorous, quaking, starting EXAMPLE "...That Dread and pavid manlessness, that seised the Inhabitants..." From: A Short Narrative of the Late Dreadful Fire in London By Edward Waterhouse, 1667 SOURCES • The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 • The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, John Ash, 1795 • A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881 • A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908 • The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, Rev. John Ogilvie, 1847-1850 • Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Porter, 1895
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