I confess that, though myself no less ardent as a Protestant than as an admirer of Holbein, I cannot, for the life of me, see any justification for either the claim or its implied charge of timorousness.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
The manner that seems most suitable for this present undertaking is neither to follow the author too close out of a critical timorousness, nor abandon him too wantonly through a poetic boldness.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Despite his timorousness in the matter of his wife, Abraham was a man of wonderful courage and warlike ability.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh