Word: timidation
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...Coward" is derived from Old French roots meaning "short-tailed," from the analogy of the timid short-tailed rabbit and the dog which makes its tail less prominent in fear...
...called Facts of Life, such as cigarettes and harsh language fall violently on the timid souls of the gentlemen who are engineering the present day reforms. Crushed by the evident and inevitable, they rise in their might and throw off the onus and destroy it utterly, stifling it on the front pages of the tabloids, and all lest some spirit now tender and sweet as the violet become aware of these things and grow up into a cauliflower, or something else far removed from violets...
Worshipful, gallant, yet timid withal...
...after math of the World War has left the United States with certain people, whom consider courage now no longer necessary even to the military character, that timid disposition, and which are the natural defense of weakness should be the ruling power of government in the United States. They believe in sentimentality which is synonymous with idiocy; they are opposed to physical force for their own or others protection; they deny the reason for which governments exist. They believe pains from the moral source are the pains derived form the unfavorable sentiments of mankind. These pains are capable of rising...
...MUST-David Garnett-Knopf ($2.50). What shall befall the tall but beautiful, timid but intelligent daughter of a widowed vicar in a hamlet of the English fen country? Author T. F. Powys would surely bring her to harm through the primeval malice of some local lout. Sheila Kaye-Smith might supply her with a young gentleman and beset their true love with gossip and the father's disapproval. H. G. Wells would find her at least a temporary career; Arnold Bennett would describe her shoelaces and thoughts on dusting the stairs. Hugh Walpole might make her a sweet minor...